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313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 16
A very large number of farmers, as our readers are aware, have settled down on the alluvial flat above metioned. We are very glad in being able to state that the damage to property is not near so great as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A vary sad account has reached us f[?]om this township, which is situate about thirty miles from Tomworth, on the Manilla River. Bebides the vast destruction to property, we have to record the drowning of Mr and Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When the flood at Tamworth had su[?]sided, the greatest anxiety was felt as to the fate of Gunnedah. It position [?]d everyone who knew the place to believe tbat the consequences would be far more disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A gentleman who started for Gunnedah in the early part of the week, writes as follows from C[?]rroll:—The water began to rise on Thursday morning, at nine o'clock, and the whole plain was covered four feet deep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HAVING already given the particulare of this appaling [?] communicated by [?] correspondent, [?] [?] from the Tu[?] of 20th instant, [?] [?] to the appearance of the township after the flood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday evening [?] public meeting was held in the hall of the School of Arts, West Maitland. The meeting was conveaned by the Mayor, at the request of several in[?] townsmen, "for the purpose of inquiring…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SELDOM has it been our lot to furnish such a chronicle of man[?]time disaster as that which appears in our present impression. The list of casualties embraces almost every locally on the coast of the United Kingdom and many points on the adjacent seaboard…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The following letter received in town on Monday, by Mr. Mark Turner, from Mrs. Turner, at Cox's Creek, a considerable distance from Narrabri, gives additional particulars of the ravages of the flood in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE learn, by letters from several gentlemen, that the plains situated near the junction of the a[?]venamed rivers were almont overwhelmed with a flood simultaneously with that which deluged the country on this side of the watershed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HAVING already given the particulars of th[?]e appalling visitation, at communicated by oar correspondent, we annex, from the Tamworth Examiner of 20th instant, some details as to the appearance of the township after the flood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FEBRUARY 12.—The inhabitants of this town and its vicinity have had a narrow escape from total destruction; as it is, many have only saved their lives and the wet rags that covered them. The town of Bingera is built upon a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WRITING from Tamworth on the 18th instant, our correspondent says:— At last we have had information from Gunnedah. The mail came in about one o'clock to-day, having crossed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Above and about Jerry's Plains the flood has been very high, but vailed, in comparison with that of 1857. The greatest sufferer I can hear of if Mr. D. Kitton, of Lucan Park, who lost a stack of beautiful wheat (supposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Willing on the 18th our correspondent says: I known yon will be anxious to hear from this district respecting the flood of last week. We had fully one week's wet westher—commenced on Tuesday, the 9th, and on Thursday the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The rain came on here (says our correspondent), much the same, and about the time you had it in Maitland. The river began rising Wednesday evening, the 10th, and on Thursday morning it had risen eight feet; but owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON the third we had a alight rain, which was the first we had had for some weeks, and the river was getting very low. There was rain falling occasionally, but not heavily, till The 10th, which was a very wet day. Towards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, between four and live o'clock, Maryborough was visited by one of the most extraordinary and violent wind storms that could happen even in this extraordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NAMOI RIVER, February 21st.—It is my painful duty to chronicle one of the greatest misfortunes that has ever visited the Northern district in the shape of a flood. It was much higher than any we ever had by six feet, or more…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FEBRUARY 17th, 1864 âSince my last communication to you we have had very heavy rains, which continned at intervals until Tuesday, the 9th instant, when it commenced to pour down in right earnest, and continued to do so…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NAMOI RIVER, February 24th— I shall endeavour to lay before the public a brief and faithful account of our disastrous visitation, which, although the flcod did not last for "forty days and forty nights," as of old, has left most of…
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