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498 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 25
When I lost addressed you I had great hopes the worst had passed. I have now to tell you of a serious and more calamitous disaster. The rain commenced the day after my last left me, and continued without intermission up to Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our district, reports the Moruya Telegraph, of the 23rd March, has again been visited by a heavy and destructive flood. The river is now at the height of the great flood of 1860, and is still rising. During the day large logs,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Since the great flood of 1800, which brought such we and desolation to the people of the Planning, the liveliest apprehensions of another similar disaster have constantly affected those whose fortunes are connected with this district. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE detailed accounts of the floods at Braidwood are to hand. The suffering which will be entailed upon the population is something dreadful to contemplate. The farmers between Larbert and Warri have suffered severely, as also…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our district, reports the Moruya Telegraph, of the 23rd March, has again been visited by a heavy and destructive flood. The river is now at the height of the great flood of 1860, and is still rising. During the day large logs,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE detailed accounts or the floods at Braidwood are to hand. The suffering which will be entailed upon the population is something dreadful to contemplate. The farmers between Larbert and Warri have suffered severely, as also…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Since the great flood of 1800, which brought such woe and desolation to the people of the Manning, the liveliest apprehension of another similar disaster have constantly affected those whose fortunes are connected with this district. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A VERY sad accident occurred last Wednesday, resulting in the death of three men, by drowning, on the bar of this river. It seems that a boat, belonging to the schooner Douglas, got away at [?] tide from the spit: the captains of the Douglas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE the great flood of 1866, which brought such woe and desolution to the people of the Manning, the liveliest apprehensions of another similar disaster have constantly affected those whose fortunes are connected with this district. Nor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ACCOUNTS reach us of immense damage from the floods in all quarters. Of course, the greatest destruction has been in Araluen, where the mining works are so much exposed to the force of the floods. A long and graphic account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Since the great flood of 1866, which brought such woe and desolation to the people of the Manning, the liveliest apprehensions of another similar disaster have constantly affected those whose fortunes are connected with this district. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our district, reports the Moruya Telegraph, of the 23rd March, has again been visited by a heavy and destructive flood. The river is now at the height of the great flood of 1860, and is still rising. During the day large logs,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE detailed accounts of the floods at Braidwood are to hand. The suffering which will be entailed upon the population is something dreadful to contemplate. The farmers between Larbert and Warri have suffered severely, as also…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I TRUST that you will allow me sufficient space in your valuable journal to give your readers, and especially your Maitland ones, a full report of the rescue of the four men who were in company with the late Mr. M'Lauchlin, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"THE question now is one of actual relief." Such was the observation made by the writer of the able leading article which appeared in the News, of Monday last, on the subject of the late disastrous floods. A more humane, or a more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As a guardian of the public welfare, the Press would be doing a public service by disseminating the undermentioned facts concerning our calamity here, in order that governmental steps may be forthwith taken that business in this locality may…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Gympic Times has been favoured with a perusal of a sort of journal or diary kept by Mr. Skyring, a settler near Traveston, during the late flood. "On Sunday night, the 6th instant, the flood rose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THURSDAY, 3 p.m.—The water, as was expected, rose fast during the night, and increased its height by ten feet. It is now six feet higher than the last fresh, and has broken over the banks in several places. In consequence a large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following letter, describing some of the incidents of the late flood at Maitland, has been received by Mr. Levien from his son, and handed to us for publication:— "West Maitland, March 24.—My dear father,—You no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Sunday morning, the 27th ultimo, the river Burdekin, which for some weeks past had gone through the course of rise and fall usual to it duriug the rainy season, again began to rise very fast, until the following afternoon, at…
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