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MAITLAND, Tuesday (by steamer from Newcastle).-Being unable to wire, I am compelled to resort to sending you a letter by steamer in the hope that news will reach you by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday, 6.50 p.m.-1 regret to have to record that our worst fears have been realised, and we are now in the throes of one of the greatest floods which this district has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thursday, 11 a.m.-The river at Maitland is now falling rapidly. At present it is down about? 2ft [?]d, and before the day is out it is expects…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WINDSOR, Wednesday Evening.-Since sending my last report the water has been gradually rising, and the weather continued very showery and squally. Numbers of people did not dare…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The weather appears to have broken, and the river at 3 this afternoon had gone down about 3in. The water had receded to within 3ft. of the railway viaduct and the Fitzroy bridge railing, and all is covered by 8 or 10 ft…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The rain which commenced on Queen's Birthday has continued showery up to the present time. On Sunday night the wind and rain was the strongest experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two boats, manned by members of the Water Police force, proceeded to Maitland last sight for the purpose of rendering assistance should a flood place place. At…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COONAMBLE, Wednesday, 7.10 p.m.--Terrible floods prevail at Coonamble, the river being now at its highest level since 1874. The lower parts of the town are entirely under water…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WINDSOR, Wednesday, 7.50 p.m.--Last night was another anxious night for many, for the water still kept rising, both in the river and the creek, and very heavy squalls of wind and rain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LITHGOW, Wednesday, 7.48 p.m.--Up to 5 o'clock this evening the total rainfall here was 12in. The rainfall has moderated into a mist, hat the clouds are still threatening. District…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday, 12.55 a.m.--The train from Sydney, with mails and passengers, arrived here safely at 11.60 o'clock. Messrs. Shellshear and Halligan the district engineers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The flood waters at Tram Vale have at length abated. On Tuesday land was not visible over an area of 300a., but the partial cessation of the rain on [that day] and its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The storm of the last few days seems now to be over. Yesterday business was resumed in the city and citizens discarded overcoats, umbrellas and leggings. In the country,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Once more the public are enabled to move about the streets in comfort, for the rain has gone, for the present, and so complete was the washing which our thoroughfares received, that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday, 9 p.m--There are unpleasant signs of more bad weather to-night, a southerly gale springing up with driving showers of rain. The harbor presents its usual…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEST MAITLAND, Thursday, 12.30 p.m.-From the previous wires I have sent it will be seen that the chief portion of the inhabitants of Maitland were compelled to take refuge in High-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When daylight broke this morning the flood waters had receded considerably. The farmers and others who had been compelled to leave their homes began to return to their saturated houses. The Windsor Bridge still…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →General fine weather prevailed yesterday, and reports from all the flooded districts state that the water is rapidly falling. There are no additional official records to make known, other than a prediction to the effect…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →We have just experienced one of the most disastrous floods that have ever occurred here. The river broke over its banks flooding all the low lands in the neighbourhood of the town, and spreading destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—The present flood about Windsor appears to me to be quite phenomenal, inasmuch as it has been caused almost entirely by the local rainfall. The predictions of the astronomers and other weather wiseacres that…
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