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THE information which we publish below from our correspondents exhibits pretty clearly the vast extent of the late floods, but we have good reasons for believing that the real amount of the loss has yet to be fully ascertained. Here…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MONDAY, 4 P M —At the time I write it is raining hard, and has been so now for some fifteen or sixteen hours The clouds are very threatening, and the prospect of things is not very brigit; indeed, to speak the truth,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THURSDAY, 5 p m.—It is our painful duty to record a serious visitation to our district by another flood, which will in all probability prove highly disastrous. It commenced raining here on Sunday evening, and has continued incessantly ever since. The river…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FLOODS ON THE NAMES—The following extract of a letter received from the Bean Bas station Namoi River, h as been banded to us for publication: "We have sustained great loss by a disastrous flood. Mr. Bowman called at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SOARGE had the waters of the late flood receded when the district has been threatened with a second visitation of like nature. As stated in our last issue, on Wednesday evening the river had risen between ten and eleven feet above its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We have had rain more or less every day during the past week. It commenced to fall on Saturday in light drizzling showers, and continued intermittently until Monday, when it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE have had rain more or less every day during the past week. I[?] commenced to fall on Saturday, in light drizzling showers, and continued intermittently, until Monday, when it cleared up slightly. On the afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The most destructive flood on record has visited this district, and swept every hing before it. On, Friday, the 12th February; the New England waters came [?]ambling down, and by midnight had covered the hotel, store,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last evening a public meeting, to devises and put in practice, the [?] [?] of raising subscriptions in aid of those was are suffering from the causes of disiress from failure of harvest and from floods, was held in St…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I know the above district pretty well, and have known how the people have borne up against the disasters of floods in years gone by, and, on the w ole, I think a pubilc appeal on behalf of Maitland to be quite…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FLOOD ON THE NAMOL.—TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF BROADWATER HOTEL AND PRN[?]MISES.—A correspondent of the Temworth Examiner writes:—The most destructive flood on record has visited this district, and swept…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FLOOD IN THE CLARENCE RIVER.—The heavy rain that set in on Saturday week continued until Tuesday, since which the weather has been very cloudy, with fiequent showers. The river rose about eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The last mail conveyed an acoount of disastrous floods on the Hunter and the Peel. Accounts from distant quarters show that the rain which fell in the middle of February was very extensive. Many parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following account of the flood of the Burdekin and the sad accident which attended it, will be rend with, in[?]erest by all the inhabitants of Bowen, especially those who bid the pleasure of knowing tue late Mr. Thomas,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE correspondent of the Maitland Mercury says:- I will now give you the lo[?]ees, so far as reports have reached here, but cannot vouch for their correctness. At Gunnedah, several houses have been swept away, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—I have the honour to report for the information of the Lieutenant-General commanding the Forcess, that with reference to his instructions, couveyed to me personally, for storming the enemy's works on the 22nd instant, I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I believe philanthropy to be a virtue, and that any provision made to mitigate the distresses of the late flood to be laudable, but I think this is not of itself sufficient to prevent a recurrence of such calamities, and have expected a motion would,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. BURNS asked the Attorney-General, "Have the Government considered the necessity of introducing, next session, come measure for preventing the devastating inundations to which the alluvial lands of the Hunter are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE have Brisbane papers to Saturday, the 26th instant, from which we give the subjoined particulars of the devastating floods that have prevailed throughout the sister colony…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Very seldom indeed is the neighbourhood of Brisbane visited by a gale of wind of so lengthy a duration and of so violent a character as that which commenced on Thursday night last, and…
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