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248 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 13
TUESDAY, 2 P.M.—Now that the water has fallann some twenty-two feet [?] we are [?] to form some idea of things; and, compating the condition of the lowlands with what we already know of the town, can come to no other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Committee of the Floods Relief Fund was held yesterday afternoon, in the Exchange. Present: The Worshipful the Mayor; Alderman Speer, Steel, and Bradford; Mr. Burns, M.L.A., Mr. Lewis,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the pressure of a higher flood than has ravaged the Hunter for years (since August, 1857) we are unable to supply our readers with the usual double shoot to-day; nor indeed could we have filled it with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This is a most gloomy place from which to date a letter. We are again visited by another flood, which most disastrous carrying away almost everything before it. You cannot realise the scene of horror to its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have been favoured by the Colonial Secretary with copies of the following letters and telegrams respecting the late disastrous floods. We understand that the Government have replied to these several communications, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PUBLIC meeting was held yesterday evening in the Masonic Hall, convened by his Worship the Mayor of Sydney at the request of a number of citizens, "to take into consideration the best and most prompt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday evening the first apprehension of a rapid rise in the river here was felt. Lawson's Creek was flooded first, and the river rosoerapidly all Friday, so much so, that serious fears were entertained all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As announced in our last issue, we closed hurriedly and went to press between 4 and 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon, in the apprehension that the flood waters would soon invade the machine room, and render…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WITHIN the recollections of the oldest inhabitant, Wollongong has never been visited with as severe and disastrous a gale as that we have experienced during the past week, Standing on the flagstaff and looking coastwise, the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN compliance with a requisition signed by the members of the committee appointed by the meeting of Saturday last, a second public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held in the Court-house on Thursday evening, at half-past 7…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The flood in this district is said to be by far the highest which has occurred since its settlement by Europeans. The town of Windsor itself is almost entirely submerged, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →It is again our painful duty to record floods of a most disastrous character, in the Nepean, the Hawkesbury, and the Hunter, consequent on the late heavy rainsâfloods greater than those…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE extent of the calamity, which has overspread such a wide extent of the country with gloom, is not yet fully known; and it is not probable that it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Murrumbridgee rose rapidly on the 21st instant after much bad weather from the eastward, and on Saturday night, 22nd, it broke its banks, flooding into the town. By Sunday morning, at 11 o'clock,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE people of Penrith are about to illustrate the truth of the a[?]age which says that "Misfortunes never come singly," One great calamity has b[?]fallen them, and another —by some people considered almost as great;—follows close…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have been favoured with the following extract from a letter received this day, from Wellington:- "On Thursday night the river commenced rising very fast, and continued rising until Saturday, by which time the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is my painful duty to have to record another flood, being the fifth we have been visited with within a period of three months. This flood has been a more severe one than any of the four which occurred prior to it. It commenced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Bennett, Commissioner for Roads, has arrived, and given orders for the immediate construction of a temporary bridge, for which a great deal of the material of the old one will come into service. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A public meeting was held on Thursday evening in the Masonic Hall, convened by his Worship the Mayor of Sydney at the request of a number of citizens, "to take into consideration the best and most prompt…
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