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Yesterday's Mercury says:—Again an unexpected and extensive flood has visited the productive valley of the Hunter, and has spread its desolating influences over a large area of cultivated land—driving…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR correspondent writing hom Minmi Colliery, [?] June, gives the following account of the effects of the flood at Hexham, and its neighbourhood:- Walking from Miami to Hemham by the railroad on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A correspondent sends us the following account of the flood in the Paterson River:—" The Paterson River has been up—much higher than the February flood; and at some places the back water was quite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I am sorry to have to state that this district has again been visited with another flood with such disastrous results as to surpass any that have taken place since the flood of August, '57. It commenced to rain slightly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is our sad duty again to chronicle another of these awful visitations which it has pleased the Almighty to send us. As yet we are glad to hear no lives have been lost, though from the evidences which have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE our previous issue the river has continued to fall at the rate of about two feet per day, and the back-water ceased rising on Monday evening, but it had then attained a height and extent of surface far…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WEST MATTLAND.—Since our previron issue, the river has continued to fall at the rate of about two feet per day, and it is now down to about seveteen fest over the proper level. The back, water ceased rising on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury of 8th instant, says:—Again an unexpected and extensive flood has visited the productive valley of the Hunter, and has spread its desolating influences over a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FLOOD ON THE HAWKESBURY.—Saturday, 4th June.—Our district has again been visited by a flood. It is well, however, to be able to congratulate ourselves that the rise so far in the river and creek has not been so…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE continue to receive very alarming accounts of the state of the floods in the River Darling. Everyone acquainted with the character of the country generally adjacent, to the river must have been impressed with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—After the gale of the 3rd of this month, I sent two men down to Crowdy, and they found part of a galley on the heach, evidently not long in the water, also a flap of a vessel's skylight, and about twenty fathoms of four-inch colir. The galley was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Edward Knapp, junior, supplies the following from the Hawkesbury:— "Again has the fertile and beautiful district of Windsor been laid waste by one of the greatest floods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOUGH the rain has considerably abated since daylight yesterday morning, the gale continued throughout the day with almost unabated fury, coming fiom the south-east. About 9 o'clock, a.m., the sun…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is [?]y melancholy duty to relate that the highes[?] and most disastrous flood which has been known on the Hawkesbury for many years has just taken place. and whilst I write the waters are, if anything, rising…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday evening, the Morpeth (s) arrived from Newcastle. The river was in too bad a state to proceed to Morpeth. Captain Hardinge was informed by Mr. Beeston, Railway Traffic Manager,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Friday morning last, rain commenced falling and continued without intermission until last night (Sunday). On Saturday, the Mulwarree Ponds and the Wollondilly rose rapidly, and in the evening fears…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT is our disangreenble duty to charonicle the occurence of another dissirue flood in the valley of the Hunter, and from present appearances there is very prospect that it will be greater than any simila diesster since the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE steamet Morpeth arrived yesterday evening, from Newosstle, having been unable to proceed up to Morpeth in conseqaence of the flooded state of the river. When the train arrived at Newcastle, yesterday, from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE heavy gale of the 2nd and 3rd of the present month appears to have been but a prelude to the more violent one which has just swept over the colony with greater force and more disastrous results than its predecessor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE steamer Rainbow, Capt, Petley, belonging to the Clarence and Richmond River Company, left the Clarence River, bound for Sydney; but after in vain endeavouring to make headway against the increasing gale on the 2nd instant, bore up, and…
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