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498 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 25
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 [?]dation ten feet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ACCORDING to previous announcement, 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 3 →ON Sunday evening a heavy rain set in at Dubbo. It continued on Monday, through that night, and cleared up on Tuesday, However, about 9 o'clock p.m., the water commenced to fall again in torrents, and kept on for about six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE north-western country, judging from the various reports in the papers, is in a dreadful state. The Dubbo Dispatch leans that between 500 and 600 sheep have been lost at Colane In g[?]tting over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Never within the recollection of the oldest colonist has such fearful weather been experienced, as that with which Divine Providence has seen fit to inflict upon us during the last three or four months;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In the various descriptions given in your pages of calamitous floods from which the colony has suffered, and is still suffering, have failed to notice any account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →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 6 →SIR,—The last drought, followed almost immediately by devastating floods must, when taken together, have a most injurious effect upon the interests of the community. These misfortunes, however, as the visitations of Providence, we…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →I BEGIN by stating that my name is Blunker. I cannot account for this in any other way than by adducing the fact that my father's name was also Blunker, and that when he married my mother she took the same name. I do not assert this as a positive theory, I…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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 7 →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 7 →AMEETING of the farmers of the district of Largs bas been held for the purpose of considering the advisability of sending out a party in search of land suitable for,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE extent of the late floods on the Murrumbidgee River is forcibly illustrated by our engraving of a portion of South Wagga Wagga at a time when the waters had reached their greatest height on Thursday,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Another flood has occurred in the Lachlan. On Friday last the river rose six inches higher than the great, flood of 1864, and within two feet six inches of underside of the chord of bridge, but no further…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Never within the recollection of the oldest colonist has such fearful weather been experienced, as that with which Divine Providence has seen fit to indict upon us during the last three or four months;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PUBLIC MEETING was held at the Olympic Theatre this evening, for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee appointed at the last meeting for drawing up the constitution and rules of a Flood Prevention…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PUBLIC MEETING was held at the Olympic Theatre this evening, for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee appointed at the last meeting for drawing up the constitution and rules of a Flood Prevention…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Monday evening, says the Maitland Mercury of Thursday, a very large number of persons—between six and seven hundred—assembled in the Olympic Theatre, West Maitland, for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE present our readers with the above diagram or outline map of the Lower Hunter, showing the extent of land submerged during the recent floods, with an indication of the means by which the injurious consequences…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A MEETING of the General Council of the Hunter River District food Prevention League waa held at the School of Arts, on Thursday afternoon, Mr. G. Vindin (Pre-, sident) in the chair…
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