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THE flood 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 7 →ACCOUNTS from all parts of the district respecting the flood confirms the opinion that it is the highest ever known within tho memory of the oldest resident. At Burria, Mr. Thompson's houso is hanging over the bank; his smithy was swept away…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WE have engraved three views, taken from photographs by Mr. Moss, of West Maitland, which will enable friends at a distance to form some conception of the effects of the floods in that town…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →MY telegrams will already have informed you of the probabilities of another flood. The anticipation, I am sorry to say, has been fully realised, the water at the present time being about thirty-six feet above high tide level, and still…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AFTER such floods as we have had to record within the past fortnight that on Thursday night is insignificant At another period, however, it would have been considered a very high one, and would probably have done much…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is our painful duty to record the unwelcome occurrence of another flood in the Hunter River, being the fourth visitation of the kind within the short space of ten weeks. Since the last flood, which was at its height about the 25th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—It is always distressing to a charitable mind to look upon misery and suffering that, by an act of Providence, has overtaken a people; but the distress receives an additional pang at the knowledge, that while much of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Bathurst Free Press, of Saturday, publishes a portion of a private letter from Mr. George Richardson, of Goolagong, on the Lachlan. It runs as follows:— "Goolagong, May 8, 1870…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have to add to the preceding month's record of serious disasters from floods further accounts of such extensive devastation as will render the autumn of 1870 painfully memorable in many future years. It is said, and with all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In our last summary we had the melancholy task of recording the occurrence of disastrous storms and floods all along the valley of the Hunter, and their extension to the northward as far as the Clarence,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The country all round is in a fearful state from the recent great floods. The rivers and creeks are up; the roads are impassable, and over forty teams are now camped at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The country all round is in a fearful state from the recent great floods. The rivers and creeks are up; the roads are impassable, and over forty teams are now camped at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thursday Afternoon.—The rivers and creeks are up ; the roads are impassable, and over forty teams are now camped at the Tanglowanglo Mountain, as they cannot get along. The stores…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AT daybreak on Friday morning, 13th instant, the river at the ferry began to rise at a frightful rate, and Slawson (aided by J. Southam and Roberts from the silver mine, who happened to be staying in the house) with great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AFTER such floods as we have had to record within the past fornight that on Thursday night is insignificant. At another period, however, it would have been considered a very high one, and would probably have done much…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT is our painful duty to record the unwelcome occurrence of another flood in the Hunter River, being the fourth visitation of the kind within the short space of ten weeks. Since the last flood, which was at its height about the 25th…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MY telegrams will already have informed you of the probabilities of another flood. The anticipation, I am sorry to say, has been fully realised, the water at the present time being about thirty-six feet above high tide level, and still…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Bathurst Free Press, of Saturday, publishes a portion of a private letter from Mr. George Richardson, of Goolagong, on tho Lachlan, It runs as follows:— "Goolagong, May 8, 1870…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The country all round is in a fearful state from the recent great floods. The rivers and creeks are up; the roads are impassable, and over forty "teams are now camped at…
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