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We regret to have to record the occurrence of the largest and most destructive floods in the Westport [?] since it [?] occupied by a [?] population. During the [?] week the district has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the most continuous and violent gales that has been experienced for some time set in on Friday evening and has been blowing without any lull ever since. On Friday morning the wind came on at south, blowing fresh,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SINCE June last, when many parts of the colony were inundated with devastating floods, we have had no weather to compare with that which has prevailed during the last two days and nights. During the last six weeks the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday, the settlers living along the banks of the Nepean, South Creek, the Hawkesbury, and the Hunter, were anxiously watching the rise of the rivers, and getting everything in readiness so as to decamp to higher ground on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RAIN, rain, rain, in fact scarcely anything but rain, if we may except the disagreeable gusts of wind that come on every now and then; and even yet there is not the slightest indication of a change in this order of things…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FEBRUARY 16TH, 8 P.M.—Scarcely a day has passed during the last three weeks without rain, and although this has done an incalculable amount of good in reviving vegetation and making the land bring forth her fruits, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Clutha, Captain Archer, from Melbourne the 6th instant, in ballast, went ashore this morning, and it is feared that she will become a total wreek…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHATEVER maybe the cause of climatic changes from time to time, whether there are really periodical recurrences of cycles of dry and cycles of wet seasons, or whether any astronomical phenomena influence the weather of any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DURING the past few days we have experienced one of the heaviest gales that has yet visited this coast, but fortunately on this occasion we have not the usual concomitants in the shape of shipwreck and loss of life to record; and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TUESDAY, 3 p.m.—It is with much pleasure I have to state that the water attained its highest point about daylight this morning, having risen about two feet during the night, and thirty feet altogether. It is now slowly receding. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir, PI rend some time ago that any man who caused two blade of grass to grow where one only grew before, was a benefactor to his country. If that be true, it must also be admitted that any man who can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUR own correspondent at Singapore sends the following interesting narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Ocean from Rio to that port:— H.M.S. Ocean, ironclad, 4047 tons, 24 guns,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Whatever may be the cause of climatic changes from time to time, whether there are really periodical recurrences of cycles of dry and cycles of wet seasons, or whether any astronomical phenomena influence the weather of any…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →During the part few days we have experienced one of the heaviest gales that has yet visited this coast, but fortunately on this occasion we have not the usual concomitants in the shape of shipwreck and loss of life to record; and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →One of the most continuous and violent gales that has been experienced for some time set in on Friday evening, and has been blowing without any lull ever since. On Friday morning the wind came on at south, blowing fresh,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SINCE June last, when many parts of the colony were inundated with devastating floods, we hare had no weather to compare with that which has prevailed daring the last tiro days and sights. During the last six weeks the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →FEBRUARY 16th, 8 P.M.—Scarcely a day hag passed during the latt three weeks without rain, and although this has dose an incalculable amount of good in reviving vegetation and making the land bring forth her fruits, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Saturday, the settlers living along the banks of the Nepean, South Creek, the Hawkesbury, and the Hunter, were anxiously watching the rise of the rivers, and getting everything in readiness so as to decamp to higher ground on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →By the barques Camille, and Ann[?], which arrived in port yesterday, from New Zealand, the former from Auckland, the latter from Bluff Harbour, we are put possession of papers containing the most startling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BY the barques Camille, and Anne, which arrived in port yesterday, from New Zealand, the former from Auckland, the latter from Bluff Harbour, we are put in possession of papers containing the most startling intelligence…
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