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171 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 9
THE water is receding very slowly. The streets are much torn up. One two-story house has fallen into the river. The water is still three feet in St. Paul's Church, and the Parsonage is much injured. All the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IT will be seen from the intelligence below that the districts bordering on the Hunter and Hawkesbury Rivers have again been visited by disastrous floods. The Hunter is said to have risen higher than at any…
Continued on Trove, page 306 →ALTHOUGH we were prepared for disastrous reports in consequence of the late bad weather, those to hand far exceed our expectations. The loss by floods in the country has been very serious,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A north-easterly gale, with heavy rain, has been raging since 2 o'clock this morning. The Florence Irving reached the wharf yesterday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The weather is still unsettled. Rain fell in Sydney this morning, but in the country the weather is fina. West Maitland is the only station reporting cloudy weather like rain, and Wagga Wahha the only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Fosbery, Inspector-General of Police; Mr. Bolding, Police Magistrate at Raymond-terrace; and Mr. W. Casey, C.P.S. at Kempsey, were appointed yesterday, by the Colonial Secretary, a commission to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →when I penned my last optatic to you in which I informed you that the drought had broken up, and that we were favoured with a plentuous rain, I little dreamed that in my next letter it would be my painful task to chronicle one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SUCCEEDING the unprecedently hot weather of the last few months, which caused grave fears as to the possibility of a protracted drought, rain has visited us in such overabundance that the destruction caused by swollen rivers and deluged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Relative to the relief being afforded by the Government to the sufferers from the floods at the Manning and the Macleay, we are informed that the blankets and biscuits were sent on board the Ballina…
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →MAITLAND.-Our correapondent writes on the 9th instant: "When I forwarded my last communication a few days ago it could not have been anticipated that this town and neighbourhood wonld be in its present state. At that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Executive Committee of the General Flood Relief [?] have [?] this sum of £[?] for the relief of the folded [?] people of West Maitland, and £150 for the relief of these at East Maitland. The member…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT commenced to rain on Wednesday, 3rd instant, and continued during Thursday with slight intermission. On Friday the rain became heavier, and the river rose 4 feet. During Friday night there was a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At the time the mail steamer Ma[?]gregor left our shores last month we were rejoioing in the fact that the dry weather—the threatened drought—had broken up, and g[?]al showers had fallen to refresh the land almost…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A correspondent writing from the North on January 2, says: "Dozens of trains were snowed np all night, and the sufferings of the passengers, especially on the Great North of Scotland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE flood waters have again swept the beautiful Hunter valley. The old, sac story of ruined crops and broken home touches us as keenly as if we were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"On' of Scylla into Chorybdis" is an old and back neyed [?] but perhaps in this instance it is not out of plce We had barely got over out strenuous exertion to avoid a mine presentation of our district, by returning our worthy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the time the mail steamer Macgregor left our shores last month we were rejoicing in the fact that the dry weather—the threatened, drought—had broken up, ana genial showers had fallen to refresh the land almost…
Continued on Trove, page 338 →THE accompanying engraving depicts one of the numerous aad scenes that occurred during the recent disastrous floods. A family is leaving hurriedly and as best they may, the highest and last…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →On Wednesday last, the weather, which of late had been too dry to be pleasant, took a decided turn, and suddenly became too wet, rain falling heavily at intervals, but on Friday it increased,…
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