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A PUBLIC meeting was held at the School of Arts, on Tuesday afternoon, to receive the report of the deputation appointed at the preliminary meeting of Friday last to wait on the Central Flood Rolief Committee, Sydney, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MAY 3.—The floods having subsided in this district, we are now enabled to estimate to some extent sur losses, which are email comparatively when contrasted with the desolation which has been wrought in other parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is commonly said, as a reason for treating complaints lightly, " The present pain is always the worst.". No doubt we have a sort of natural tendency to exaggerate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ACCOUNTS from all parts of the district respecting the flood confirms the opinion that is the highest ever known within the memory of the oldest resident. At Burrla, Mr. Thompson's house is hanging over the bank ; his smithy was swept away…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Hood has now subsided, but as our local papers of to-day contain very good accounts, they will save me the necessity of forwarding you particulars. By the latest papers I observe that no telegrams have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the past two months the weather in the neighbourhood of Dubbo him been very unsettled. More rain fell hereabouts during that time than at any previous period in the memory of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE correspondent of the Moruya Telegraph writes:— Again it becomes my melancholy duty to record a second disastions flood, far exceeding its predecessor in height and violence. It commenced raining in showers on Sunday,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON Wednesday morning, 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 3 →On Wednesday 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 3 →THE reports of the Floods which will be found in another column, though so extensive in the aggregate, present but a condensation of the tidings which have reached us. It is difficult…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A. LARGE meeting of the Inhabitants of West Maitland, touching the recent flood devastations, took place last Monday evening.—Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland, proposed a resolution of sympathy with those persons who had sufforod,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A. man named Garey has been drowned in the Marthaguy Creek, near Benda. Another man was also drowned in Bundemah Creek, and another at Narrawinea, during the floods. The bodies have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The accounts from this place are doplorable in the extreme. Scores of families have lost everything. Mr. T. S. Hall, of. Dartbrook, Mr. L. P. Doyle Mr. T. White, and Mr. Bowman are said to be the greatest sufferers by the calamity. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The accounts from up-country are very bad, and the loss sustained, by some of the squatters and settlers at Singleton, Muselebrook, and Scone, are said to be very heavy indeed. In Singleton the river rose ton inches higher than in 1857, and…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →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 21 →THE following further 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 fearful effect…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →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 6 →BUT yesterday and the alluvial flats on both sides of the Macquarie were covered with abundant herbage, and by many kitchen gardens belonging, for the most part, to Chinamen. Now the whole are completely submerged. The "murmurs…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →A MEETING of the Floods Relief committee took place on Wednesday, at the Exchange Present—The. Dr. Lang, (in the chair) with Messrs. Piddington Ronny, Fairfax, Raphael, Dawson, Allen, Rev. Messers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →I YESTERDAY paid 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…
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