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498 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 25
YESTERDAY morning p[?]ant to notice, it meeting of the Working or Executive Commnttee of the Flood Relief Fund was held in the hill of the Chamber of Commerce. Sydney Exchenge, at 11 o'clock. The [?]. George…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →By the arrival of the You Yangs (s.) in port early yesterday morning, there were brought here, as passengers, Captain Featherstone and the crew of the schooner, Stormbird, which was wrekced near Green Cape on Wednesday last. During…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When the waves roll in their fury of madness, An'd scatter the white foam far up to the cloud; When the din of the tempest is drowning the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Thursday morning, pursuant to notice, a meeting of the Working or Executive Committee of the Flood Belief Fund was held in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce, Sydney Exchange, at 11 o'clock. The Hon. George…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →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 13 →ON Saturday, the 26th instant, pursuant to notice, a meeting of the General Committee of the Flood Relief Fund of 1867 was held in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce, at the Sydney Exchange, at noon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE following letter, describing some of tie incidents of the late flood at Maitland, has been received by Mr. Levien from his eon, and handed to us for publication:— "West Maitland, March 24.—My dear father,—You no…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →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 during the rainy season, again began to rise very fast, until the following afternoon, at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE following accounts relative to the flooded districts are collated from the country newspapers:â Kiama…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →I TRUST that you will allow me sufficient space in your valumable journal to give your readers, and especially your Maitland ones, a full report of thc rescue of the four men who were in company with the late Mr. M'Laughlin, who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] As a guardian of the public welfore, the press would be doing a public service by disseminating the undermentioned facts concerning our calamity here, in order that goverments…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE correspondent of the Maitland Mercury writes:—Since the subsidence of the flood waters in the Paterson district, the farmers have been able to again get about their land, to ascertain the less they have sustained through the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE last Wednesday the river Hunter bad co[?]ue to rise, and on Friday morning had reached to 23½ feet [?] [?]at Belmore Bridge, or 7½feet below the and 9½ feet [?] of the previous floods,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is my painful duty to record the visitation of a most disastious flood to our district. We ought to be very thankful that no human li[?]e was sacriflcel, considering the rapid rise of the sweeping river, or that no dwellings were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Gympie Times has been favoured with a perusal of a sort of journal of diary kept by Mr. Skyring, a settler near Travesion, during the late flood. "On Sunday night, the 6th instant, the flood rose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have received an extraordinary to the Clarence Examiner, containing full particulars of the great flood on the Richmond River. The account in every case confirms the account furnished by our correspondent,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BY the arrival of the mail from Casino, our worst forebodings, with respect to the destruction occationed by the floods on the Richmond River, have, we regret to learn, been more than realised. The loss sustained by the Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is our painful duty to chronicle the greatest, if not the most disastrous flood that has yet been known on the Moruya River. Wednesday, the 2nd instant, rain foll after a month's drought, and since that date we have not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have reccived an extraordinary to the Clarence Examiner, containing full particulars of the great flood on the Richmond River. The account in every case confirms the account furnished by our correspondent,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I know the Maitlands, and have seen soem floods there. The township of East Maitland is a Government township, containing upwards of a square mile, with at least…
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