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The heavy rain which has prevailed for the lost five days, has unfortunately caused another flood in the low lying districts. It could scarcely have occurred at a more inopportune time; since the farmers for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—I can see that many persons in Sydney are puzzled at the apparent apathy of those residing in Hooded districts at the approach of imminent danger, and that their indignation is aroused and their benevolence cheeked by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Will you kindly allow the following to appear in your paper. Seeing the destruction of bridges by [?], from time to time, I set myself the task to find out a plan to prevent it, and, believing I had found…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Your publication of the 20th instant contains an admirable letter, from a correspondent, on this subject. In his remarks referring to drainage, he asks— "What have the inhabitants in the Windsor and…
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Continued on Trove, page 13 →AFTKR some weeks of fine weather, gratifying especially to the farmors, we have to chronicle the visit of heavy rains and storms. So far as we can learn, these rains and storms have extended along the eastern coast, at least suspending…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AFTER some weeks of fine weather, gratifying especially to the farmers, we have to chronicle the visit of heavy rains and storms. So far as we can learn, these rains and storms have expended along the eastern coast, at least suspending…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A proposal is before Congress for establishing Storm Signals on the following plan:— When a storm has formed, and commences to travel in any certain direction, the first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The branch steamer, with the south Australian portion of the English mails, was sighted at 11.10 this forenoon. The R.M.S. A voca, with the inward mail,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy snow storms have fallen during the week in the Southern districts. At Yas[?], the local journal of Friday says, there are few of the present residents who recollect such a one as took place on Wednesday last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SNOW AT TAMWORTH.—The Examiner of Saturday says:— On Wednesday last, a heavy fall of light hail set in, and lasted sufficiently long to completely cover the township as with a white mantle, presenting a singular and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE gentlemen composing the Commission to inquire into the best mode of remedying or mitigating the evils arising from floods in the Hunter River district entered upon their duties at the beginning of this week. This Commission,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE first meeting of tho Floods Commission for taking evidence was held on Wednesday last, at the Northumberland Hotel. Mr. William Larkin Foreman, who resides at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE weather during the past month has been of the strangest character, changing suddenly from unseasonable warmth to still more unseasonable cold. The 9th proved a red letter day, as being the date of one of the most seyere snow storms ever known…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Hunter River Flood Commission held its third meeting for taking evidence at the Northumberland Hotel, on Friday last. Ten witnesses were examined, namely— Messrs. John Atkinson, John Ewing, and John Bowden,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday, the 25th September, the Hunter River Flood Commission resumed its sittings at the Northumberland Hotel. A number of wilnesees residing in Morpeth had been summoned. One sent a letter staling that he was unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FLOODS AND LOSS OF LIFE.— The Daily Telegraph reports:— One of those sudden climatic transitions which are, unfortunately, of too frequent occurrence in the colony, in just now being experienced throughout its area…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE flood was nowhere attended with such a disastrous result as at the claim of the Great Northern Junction. Company. This claim ia situated about three and a half miles out on the Creswick Road, on a flat, into which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ballarat, Oct. 16—This will be a memorable blackletter day in the annals of Ballarat, Since the year 1835, when the celebrated White Fat flood, as it was called, occurred, no such devasting rush of water has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE attention of the Government having been called to the necessity of storm signals along the coast, have caused the following arrangements to be made. The existence of gales which are likely to endanger shipping,…
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