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498 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 25
THE above view of Yass is from a photograph, taken by Mr. J. Gow, an artist of that town, after the flood waters had subsided. The first cottage on the left, with its chimney down, is the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →MR. JAMES KELLY, a resident of the Murrumbidgee, under date 9th May, writes us as follows :—On the 26th April a flood began to rise which will long be remembered by the residents on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AFTER the disastrous experiences of the flood of the 28th April, and the warning received by telegram from the up-river townships in the course of Friday last, few of our townsmen were taken unawares by the rising of the waters,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain, rain— Nothing but rain! Sapping the upland, flooding the plain; Drowning our cattle, spoiling our grain—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—It is with deep regret that I read the accounts of the ravages of the late floods—of the loss of life and destruction of property. I am of opinion that floods may be avoided, and that it is only a question…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. JAMES KELLY, a resident of the Murrumbidgee, under date 9th May, writes us as follows:— On the 26th April a flood began to rise which will long be remembered by the residents on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the arrival of the steamer Samson, from the Bay of Islands, on Monday, says the New Zealand Herald of 14th May, we learn that there has been a fearful gale at the Bay of Islands. Mr. Bateman's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOR the fifth time since the begining of the month of March we are called upon to chronicle the unwelcome occurrence of another flood—fortunately not a very high one this time—in the river Hunter. The waters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHEN I wrote you before, giving a faint sketch of the desolation occasioned in this vicinage by the greatest flood then ever known since the settlement of the country, I little thought we should soon experience an inundation ten feet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ACCORDING to previous announcements, a public meeting of the inhabitants took place on Monday evening last, at the Olympic Theatre, for the purpose of receiving the report of the deputation sent, at a former meeting, to Sydney: and to take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FOR the fifth time since the beginning of the month of March we are called upon to chronicle the unwelcome occurrence of another flood—fortunately, not a very high one this time—in the river Hunter. The waters…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE Age of Thursday states that in the neighbourhood of the town the rain of Thursday was much heavier than that which preceded the previous flood. Great chasms have been made in several places by the action of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Friday morning, the 18th instant, the highest flood on record was witnessed here by those whose anxious minds kept them watching until 2 a.m. Tradition says that a higher flood did once occur, here since its occupation by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MAY 26.—Not having [?] any account on [?] [?] floods which visited this isolated valley, in the columns of your influential journal, I [?] to send you a description of them, with the hope that our rulers will do…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. JAMES KELLY, a resident of the Murrumbidgee, under date 9th May, writes us as follows:— On the 26th April a flood began to rise which will long be remembered by the residents on the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →THE north-western country, judging from the various reports in the papers, is in a dreadful state. The Dubbo Dispatch learns that between 500 and 600 sheep have been lost at Colane. In getting over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have had rain, more or less, ever since the 2nd March, but the last rain, about a fortnight since, which lasted sixty hours, was the dead finish, as it set all the creeks running bank high, and put the water over the plains in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE correspondent of the Moruya Telegraph, writing from Nerrigundah on the 14th May, gives the following account of the disastrous flood that occurred in that locality:— It is my unpleasant duty to record yet another flood,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Having been, fortunately, somewhat useful in assisting to relieve the abject destitution occasioned by the recent devastating floods, I desire respectfully to call the attention of the benevolent public of the metropolis to the report…
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