These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
146 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 8
THE PATERSON.—No great damage was done about the Paterson up to Friday last, but the total height the river reached was about thirty feet above high water mark, but lower down, about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AROUT Mailland the flood has come most unexpectedly and inopportunely. The district generally was thriving; maize, potatoes, and lucerne were growing finely, and the farmers hopes were high. Never was there greater promise…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Saturday night, and early on Sunday morning last, a heavy south-east gale swept the coast, and resulted in the loss of the schooners Yarra and Surprise, two well-known coasters. The day had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Saturday night, and early on Sunday morning last, a heavy south-east gale swept the coast, and resulted in the loss of the schooners Yarra and Surprise, two well-known coasters. The day had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is once more our sorrowful duty, says the Weekly News, to chronicle a disastrous overflow of the water-courses of the district; and although the losses caused thereby are not, fortunately, by any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINGLETON.—It again becomes our unpleasant duty to have to add another record to the long list of floods and freshes which have occurred in this district during the last seventeen years. The weather during Sunday night was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE PATERSON.—No great damage was done about the Paterson up to Friday last, but the total height the river reached was about thirty feet above high water mark, but lower down, about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE m last communication we had a most disastrous flood on this river, attended with loss of human life and sheep in flocks, Pigs, goats, fowls, and stores, were seen floating on the raging…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although the interruption in the running of the railway trains, renders it, impossibe to got as much as usual of information from up the district, and from beyond the Liverpool Range, yet what we…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A great quantity of rain must have fallen, says the Dubbo Dispatch of the 30th January, at the head of the Talbragar, for on Monday that river reached a greater height than ever before known. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Mercury reports that the water has been receding steadily both from the river and the back lands. As it goes it leaves behind it everywhere scenes of wreck and desolation. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We had hopes, says the Maitland Mercury, that the great flood with which we have been visited would, at least, have passed over without the lost of human life having to be deplored, but such, we regret to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE we wrote last me water has been receding stea[?]y both from the river and the back lands. At it goes it leaves behind it every where scenes of wreck and desolation. The destruction of fences has been considerable, owing to the strength and variery of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DIRING the greater portion of last week it rained almest incessantly; but on Saturday evening, January 24, it came down with a vengeance, and continued during the night Just before daylight, the river flowed over its banks, but soon receded. At about…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →COONAMBLE.—The incessant rains that have continued in this part of the country for nearly three weeks have risen the Castlereagh River and Coonamble Creek to a considerable height, overflowing their banks for miles, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Maitland Mercary reports that the water has been reeding steadily botls from the river and the back lands. As it goce it leaves behind it everywhere scenes of wreck and desolation. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following telegraphic despatch, received by the superintendent of telegraphs, Brisbane, from the station master at Rockhampton, on the 25th January, confirms the information previously…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →In parts of the western district as well as in the north the floods have been high and destructive. The Talbragar Greek, we learn from the Dubbo Dispatch, rose to a great, almost an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE late floods in the Hunter and adjacent districts have been highly injurious to farmers and settlers generally, the details of losses showing that in many cases everything in the shape of produce this season has been destroyed. We…
Continued on Trove, page 174 →ABOUT Maitland during the week there was no heavy rain till Saturday night, the 25th ultimo and no news of alarming rain up country. The rain on Saturday night and Sunday morning was dense and weighty; but everyone…
Continued on Trove, page 176 →