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313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 16
THE Darling Downe Gazette says:—"Various rumours have reached as of disasters from the late floods, but, owing to there having been no mail from any part beyond Dalby, and none from Leyburn, we are unable to state…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—This is [?]raly an age of "[?]tion." The popular [?] it may be worthfly so termed has of late years been worked up into such a mor[?] state of [?] ment that it cannet be [?] with simple truth. Like the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the James Paterson (s.), which arrived from Roeksmpton at four o'clock this morning we learn from the Mary borough O[?] that the town of Maryborough [?] been deva[?] by an unprecedented flood,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Northern Argus, of March 23rd, says:—A hurricane has broken over Rockhampton such as European knowledge is, in most instances, unacquainted with. Torrents of rain bore company to the furious winds,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →By the James Paterson (s) which arrived from Rockhampton early on Friday morning we learn from the Maryborough Chronicle that the town of Maryborough has been devastated by an unprecedented flood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have Brisbane papers to Saturday, the 26th March, from which we give the subjoined particulars of the devastating floods that have prevailed throughout the sister colony…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IPSWICH—The weather at Ipswich still remains unsettled; sometimes the sky is clear, and sometimes clouded, and occasionally a brief shower falls. The river has fallen to within a foot or two of its ordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Brisbane Courier of the 30th gives the following particulars of the damage done to the various cotton plantations in Queensland by the floods:â On the Fernie Lawn Cotton Plantation, belonging…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Writing on the 21st ultimo from Mororo, North Arm, Clarence River, our correspondent says:— We have [?]ad a flood here at last, eighteen inches only below that of 1863. On Friday and Saturday (18th and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WALGETT, WARCH 29.—Hitherto we had considered ourselves unapproachable by floods—a belief warranted, perhaps, by the consideration that this flood has no parallel in any man's memory, and beside which all others recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The unsettled state of the weather, and the reports that are daily reaching us from the country districts, keep alive in the public mind the subject of the recent floods. From the information received it appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →RAIN, rain, nothing but rain, rendering the noble and useful Clarence a most formidable sheet of water—overflowing its boundaries, and converting immense areas of land into lagoons, destroying the crops, and sweeping all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Burnett Argus of 28th ultimo says:—After a brief cessation the rains again set in with renewed vigour on Wednesday the 17th, and continued up to Friday morning following—one continuous downpour. The Burnett River…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WALGETT, MARCH 29.—Hitherto we had considered ourselves unapproachable by floods—a belief warranted, perhaps, by the consideration that this flood has no parallel in any man's memory, and beside which all others recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Brisbane Courier of the 30th gives the following particulars of the damage done to the various cotton plantations in Queensland by the floods:— On the Fernie Lawn Cotton Plantation, belonging…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IPSWICH,—The weather at Ipswich still remains unsettled sometimes the sky is clear and sometimes clouded and occasionally a brief shower falls. The river has fallen to within foot or two of its ordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →RAIN, rain, nothing but rain, tendering the noble and useful Clarence' into a most formidable sheet of water— overflowing its boundaries, and converting immense areas of land into large lagoona, destroying crops, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BARWIN RIVER, 30TH MARCH.—This part of the country, like most parts of the colony, has had its full share of the late disastrous floods. No doubt on account of no mails being able to get from or to Walgett for the last five weeks,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TINONEE, March 29.—On my way up from Maitland I had rain all the way, arriving on Sunday night, so you can fancy that I found the roads in a most miserable state. Since my arrival it has continued raining, and now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THIS part of the country is now in a fearful state with water, and nothing but water everywhereâin houses an ont of them; we contect find a dry piaae to put the soles of our feet on. Business and all sorts of oommunication…
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