Anticipated Floods in the Hawkesbury. Windsor. Thursday. 20 p.m
The river has risen ton feet above the usual level, and is rising at the rate of four inches an hour…
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Telegraphic Intelligence. (From Our Correspondents.) Floods in the Hunter. West Maitland. Thursday, 4.30 p.m
Heavy rains have fallen at Maitland all day, and the river is now twenty-four feet six inches above its ordinary level. The back water is rising fast, and Scohie's tunnel,…
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Last night's advices inform us that several hundred families are flooded out at Maitland. The river was still rising at the rate of about a foot an hour. It had attained a flood height of 30 feet six inches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods. West Maitland. Friday, 8 p.m
The river and back water are still rising. The former is now about as high as the former flood. Several hundred families are flooded out, and much distress prevails. The last reports from Singleton are…
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There is now, unfortunately, a flood of great magnitude in the Hunger, and the sad scenes which are part of the history of past years are being repeated, if not to so great an extent as on…
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It is our painful duty to record the visitation of a most disastrous Hood in our district, and which unfortunately gives indications of being even more calamitous than that…
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THERE is now, unfortunately, a flood of great magnitude in the Hunter, and the sad scenes which are part of the history of past years are being repeated, if not to so great an extent as on previous occasions, still sufficiently so to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Flood in the Hunter. the Back Water—great Destruction of Crops. (From the Maitland Mercury of Thursday.)
SINOR our last notice the water of the river has been falling, though slowly, and some of the land that had been submerged is free from inundation. At 5 o'clock on Monday evening, it will be remembered, the bridge gauge…
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The West Coast gold-fields have been more or less flooded. The Grey River Argus of the 22nd February says:— "The river came down on Sunday in higher flood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegraphic Intelligence. (From Our Own Correspondents.) the Floods. West Maitland. Friday, noon
The river is within eighteen inches of the former flood, and is still rising. The back water has risen very high. The Elgin-street station is surrounded by water,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in the Hunter. Bursting of the Wallis' Creek Flood Gates. Great Destruction of Property. (Fbom Our Special Reporter.) West Maitland, March, ll
After the lapse of two winters only, the valley of the Hunter is again the scene of a most disastrous flood which, at the time I write, bids fair to equal, if not surpass, in height, the dreadful visitation of…
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The following further particulars, which we abridge from the Examiner, are to hand this morning:— It appears that the. area visited' by the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Anticipated Floods in the Hawkesbury. Windsor. Thursday, 20 p.m
The river has risen ten feet above the usual level, and is rising at the rate of four inches an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →POSTSCRIPT. Telegrams. Floods in the Hunter. West Maitland. Thursday, 4.30 p.m
Heavy rains have fallen at Maitland all day, and the river is now twenty-four feet six inches above its ordinary level. The back water is rising fast, and Scobie's tunnel,…
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We regret to have to announce that the floods in the Hunter district have again assumed a very threatening aspect. The prospects of a cessation of rain, though promising a few days since, have not…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle. Terrific Gale and Floods. Sunday night
A terrific gale has been blowing all day, with violent rain squalls. The ketch ino is wrecked on the North Shore; her crew, consisting of four men, were saved by the lifeboat, which, in the absence of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. New Castle. Terrific Gale and Floods. Sunday night
A terrifle gale has been blowing all day, with violent rain squalls. The ketch Ino is wrecked on the North Shore; her crow, consisting of four men, were saved by the lifeboat, which, in the absence of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in the Hunter. Continued Rise of the Hunter. Hundreds of Settlers Driven From Their Homes. Interruption of the Railway Traffic. Immense Destruction of Crops
Morpeth, Friday evening, March 18. My worst anticipations have been realized, for we are now in the midst of one of the highest and most destructive floods that ever devastated the valley of…
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