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498 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 25
The accounts from up-country are very bad, and the loss sustained by some of the squatters and settlers at Singleton, Musclebrook, and Scone, are said to be very heavy indeed. In Singleton the river rose ten inches higher than in 1857, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The distress in Maitland is really fearful, and the applications for relief are already very numerous. The mayor (W. H. Smith, Esq.), telegraphed on Tuesday to the Colonial Secretary for authority to render aid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Happening to meet Mr. John Wyndham in Maryland, I learned some particulars respecting the height of the river at Dalwood, which will, doubtless, be perused with interest. The river on Tuesday morning at Dalwood was no less than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There is a frightful flood at Shoalhaven—four feet higher than the great flood of 1860. The telegraph, post-office, and steamers' store, and several other houses are swept away…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I YESTERDAY raid a visit to the town of West Maitland, and am anxious to convey to your readers some ides of what I saw there To do this, however, would require the graphic pen of a Dickens, who can make his readers see things as he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following farther particulars of the disastrous flood and calamitous loss of life at Denman were communicated to the Maitland Mercury :— I feel it my duty to write and let you know the f fearful effect…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As showing the vicissitudes that travellers have to pass though in their journeyings to these parts. I send you a sketch, which. I hope, may be of some interest to your readers. On Monday night I left Sydney, passing through Campbelltown, Liverpool,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Again in a very short space of time we hear of another inundation more terribly destructive than any we have had to record for very many years. Coming so soon after the devastations we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →APRIL 25.—I feel it my duty to write and let you know the fearful effect he late rain,bss caused in Duaman, as I can safely say, from what. I have heard from the oldess, resident Dunman, that it has x[?]eded any provious flood…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The subjoined telegrams were received by members of the Government yesterday:— KIAMA, FRIDAY, 5.2 P.M. Most destructive flood at Shoalhaven. Four feet…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FRIDAY 3 p.m.—The weather is keeping fine, but we [?] fine to [?]st—a[?]ad strengthened by recent n we [?] Gaulburn, that rain was f[?]llimg there in forrents. It such is the ease we [?]eed not be at all surprised to see the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ANOTHER FRESH.—MONDAY, 2 P.M.—We have again to complain of a superabundance of wet weather. It has been raining here since Friday, and at present there is little prospect of a change. The river commenced rising…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As stated in our latest telegram from West Maitland, in our last issue, the river, on Monday evening, about 11 o'clock, broke over all the embankments within the municipal boundaries of that town, and created the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The river rose last night, and is now only some three feet over the old bridge piles, but is not falling. Both the Nepean and South Creek fall as the ocean tide ebbs. Little rain fell during the night. It has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY there was the highest flood ever witnessed in Goulburn. Up to the present the flood of 1864 had been the highest known in this district The waters then rose to the level of the Fitzroy bridge. In 1860 they trickled…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →I YESTERDAY [?]aid a visit to the town of West Maitland, and am anxious to convey to your readers some idea of what I saw there. To do this, however, would require the graphic pen of a Dickens, who can make his readers see things as he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There is a frightful flood at Shoalhaven—four feet higher than the great flood of 1860. The telegraph, post-office, and steamers' store, and several other houses are swept away…
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