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498 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 25
THE effect, of the floods in the Wimmera district is thus noticed by the Pleasant Creek News:—" It is only now that communication between Stawell and the northern parts of the country is regularly resumed, and this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SOME of the heaviest rains ever known here fell on Monday and Tuesday last, and on the latter day, about 1 o'clock, the creek which brings the drainage of the Black Range country through the town, rapidly rose above any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] morning ever known at Avoca. All the fencing and the crops near the river are swept away; pigs, fencing, and large trees have been swept dawn the river. Two lives have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PORTLAND, Saturday.—There was a serious storm last night throughout the Western district, and the loss of property is believed to be very great. The bridge over the Muddy Creek, near Hamilton, has been swept away…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE take the following telegrams from the Melbourne papers that came to hand last night:— Avoca, 29th October. The highest, flood has occurred this morning ever…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NOT in the time of any black or white man now living on or near the Adelang Creek was such a fearful and rapid rise of water ever known as took place on the afternoon of last Wednesday. During the early part of the day the heavens were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PORTLAND, Saturday.—There was a serious storm last night throughout the Western district, and the loss of property is believed to be very great. The bridge over the Muddy Creek, near Hamilton, has been swept away…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SOME of the heaviest rains over known here fell on Monday and Tuesday last, and on the latter day, about 1 o'clock, the creek which brings the drainage of the Black Range country through the town, rapidly rose above any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NOT in the time of any black or white man now living on or near the Adelong Creek was such a fearful and rapid rise of water ever known as took place on the afternoon of last Wednesday. During the early part of the day the heavens were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE take the followine telegrams from the Melbourne papers that came to hand on Wednesday:— Avoca, 29th October. The highest flood has oocurred this morning ever…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following further telegrams appear in the Melbourne Age:—Woods Point, 31st October. The floods and river are higher here now than ever…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SAD loss of life occurred in our town on Saturday. "In two small cottages at the rear of our office there were two families, named Drummond and Laird, and being the lowest houses in the town, a few very thoughtful people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE interval from Thursday morning, October 27, to Friday night, 28th, gave a very fair sample of the exceedingly variable weather usually experienced at this season. On Wednesday night the mercury commenced by slow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THURSDAY, 4.30 p.m.—[?] is in a most pitiable state; but the interval between the arrival and departure of the train this afternoon affords but a brief opportunity for looking round and writing a few particulars of what is to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE interval from Thursday morning, October 27, to Friday night, 28th, gave a very fair sample of the exceedingly variable weather usually experienced at this season. On Wednesday night the mercury commenced by slow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SAD loss of life occurred in our town on Saturday. "In two small cottages at the rear of our office there were two families, named Drummond and Laird, and being the lowest houses in the town, a few very thoughtful people…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THURSDAY, 4.30 p.m.—Echuca is in a most pitiable state; but the interval between the arrival and departure of the train this afternoon affords but a brief opportunity for looking round and writing a few particulars of what is to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The floods and river are higher here now than ever known. Bridges are washed away in every direction. Yesterday a man named William O'Brian, in endeavouring to cross at the brewery, was swept away by…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →THE towns of Echuca and Maoma the former on the Victorian side, and the latter on the New South Wale[?] side of the Murray, and known to many old colonist the one as Hopwood's Ferry, and the other as Maiden[?]…
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