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SIR,-The sad accounts that have appeared in the papeas o the distrous effects of the floods in so many pans of the eolony, reoulting in the almost total ruin of many families, have suggested to me that some aystematic and immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →REFERRING to the amount of damage done on the the Wollondilly unit the Mulwarrec, the Goulburn Herald regrets to have to announce that the bridge over the fornier river it Marsden's Crossing-place is destroyed. The centre span,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is my painful duty to inform you of the visitation to our district of the most fearful flood known within the memory of any resident of this part. The damage will be far greater than the flood of 1860, as the flood level was several feet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE 20th of April, 1870, will long be remembered by the inhabitants of the Yass district as a day of calamity and LOSS. The flood in the Yass River, had, before that day was over, culminated most disastrously in the the total destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEVER Since Burrowa became, populated by white men has such an Immense and devastating flood been witnessed as that of Tuesday last. It had been raising for several days previously, almost without Intermission. On Tuesday the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WEDNESDAY, 27th April—Gundagai has been visited by the greatest flood that has taken place since the disastrous inundation of June, 1852, which swept away the old township ituate on the river fists, and the even higher rise of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING of the Floods Relief committee took place this morning, at the Exchange. Present—The Rev. Dr. Lang, (in the chair) with Messrs. Piddington, Benny, Fairfax, Raphael, Dawson, Allen, Rev. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM the local journals received yesterday, we extract the following further particulars of floods:— BRAIDWOOD. The late flood has been the highest that was ever known…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE late flood has been the highest that was ever known in the history of the district, and it appears to have been equally as high in other parts of the Southern districts with which there has been any communication. In some parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Kiama correspondent of the Illawarra Mercury gives the following account of the storm that raged along the coast during. The eurly port of last week, during the prevalence of which the Walter Hood was lost:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HEAVY floods were experienced at Queanbeyan. The Commercial Bank had to be abandoned, care being taken to secure the effects. The bridge stood the force of the current, notwithstanding that the water came up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE papers to hand on Thursday morning inform us that the injuries inflicted by the recent floods at Cowra are astounding. Twenty-one houses have been swept away in Cowra alone, independent of all kinds of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the largest and most influential public meetings ever held in the town of West Maitland took place at the Olympic Theatre to-night, his worship the mayor (W. H. Smith, Esq.) occupying the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Times gives the following particulars of the flood at Gundagai. The circumstances attending the loss of Mrs. Franklin and her two children are among the most pitiful narratives of suffering yet recorded in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY morning, the 4th instant, pursuant to notice, a meeting of the General Committee of the Flood Relief Fund was held in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce, Sydney Exchange, at 11.30. On the motion of Mr. John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY morning a deputation appointed at a public meeting held in West Maitland on Monday evening, the 2nd May, had an interview with the Colonial Secretary (the Hon. Charles Cowper, C.M.G.,) respecting the prevention…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ONE of the largest and most influential public meetings ever held in the town of West Maitland took place at the Olympic Theatre to-night, his worship the mayor (W. H. Smith, Esq.) occupying the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING of the Floods Relief committee took place yesterday morning, at the Exchange. Present—The Rev. Dr. Lang, (in the chair) with Messrs. Piddington, Renny, Fairfax, Raphael, Dawson, Allen, Rev. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WEDNESDAY, 27th April.—Gundagal has been visited by the greatest flood that has taken place since the disastrous inundation of June, 1852, which swept away the old township situate on the river flats, and the even higher rise of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Monday and Tuesday last, this locality was visited by the most disastrous flood ever experienced here. We have to lament, not only the devastation of wheat, maize, potatoes, turnips, pumpkins, and hay, besides fences erected at heavy…
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