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207 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 11
The floods at Blenheim are subsiding. Great damage has been done. Lake Rotorua is rising, and has submerged the native graveyard at Point Peninsula. The collins were washed out, and they are floating…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →ST. GEORGE, Saturday afternoon.—The Government boat, loaded with flour, arrived to-day from Yeniba, Captain Richards in charge. The boat came from Surat in three days. The river is only 3ft above…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →From Mulwala our travelling reporter writes, under date 13th instant, as follows:—The Murray has been rising steadily for several days, and has now attained the greatest height of the season. Nearly all the flats are submerged,…
Continued on Trove, page 593 →By the E. and A.S.S. Company's steamship Catterthun which arrived on Wednesday, news comes to hand of disastrous floods having occurred at Foochow. Captain Darke states that on the 17th and 18th of August the…
Continued on Trove, page 586 →Only once in a decade or thereabouts does the Darline River come down in such flood as it is now. It may for a little time be navigable oftener than this: but a "real good river," as it is called away…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Sir,—It is said that the Water Conservation Commission are about to have a flying survey made of the Darling, with the view of ascertaining the best mode of retaining the waters given by the occasional floods in that river, and I am…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Twas a day of storm, for the giant Atlantic, rolling in pride, Drawn by the full moon, driven by the fierce wind, tide upon tide,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The two most useful members of the Water Commission, Messrs. Donkin, C.E., and Gipps, O.E., have done a proper thing in taking advantage of the Darling being in high flood to travel…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The close, sultry weather experienced in Sydney during the past few days proved the forerunner of one of the heaviest falls of rain this year, the precursor of which was a slight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle, Friday.--Newcastle was visited by a heavy gale last night, when the rain fell in torrents, submerging the lowlands aud doing considerable damage to property. A house in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WOLLONGONG, Saturday noon.—It is stated that the Mount Kembla colery is flooded with water. It is estimated that it will cost thousands of pounds to put is in working order again…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, October 16.—The weather during the past week has been unusually severe. Disastrous gales and floods are reported from many pats of the kingdom. Numerous shipwrecks have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The weather during the past week has been unusually severe. Disastrous gales and floods are reported from many parta of the kingdom. Numerous shipwrecks have occurred on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London, Saturday.--The weather during the past week has been unusually severe, and disastrous gales and floods are reported from many parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co's steamship Wendouree, for whose safety great anxiety was felt in consequence of her non-arrival from Melbourne on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, October 17.—Serious news has been received from America. There has fro some time been an almost continuous fall of rain. The greatest fall his ocounted in Texas,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WOLLONGONG, Saturday noon.—It is stated that the Mount Kembla colliery is flooded with water. It is estimated that it will cost thousands of pounds to put it in working order again…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A telegram from Goondiwindi (Q.), states that a tremendous flood has occurred there, and that there it not a water-bare spot for miles around. The M'Intyre River is running miles wide, and the water…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A great flood has taken place at Goondiwindi. The M'Intyre River is running miles wide, and the town is under water. The inhabitants have taken refuge on a sand ridge near the town. Fears are entertained for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Serious floods have taken place in Texas, and an extensive tract of country is inundated. Two hundred persons have been drowned…
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