Fire and Flood
BY the recent fire in Surat 3000 houses have been destroyed, and 25,000 people are homeless. According to the TIMES correspondent, the water supply was…
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The Floods at Maitland. a Young Woman Drowned, Further Fatalities Reported. West Maitland, This Day
The river has fallen about 5ft, and is now confined within its bunks. High- street is again free from flood. The floodgates stood all right, but a great deal of…
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DURING the rain and gales of the night before last a house in Bayswater-road, which had recently been burned, and was in process of reconstruction, was washed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Floods at Maitland. the Waters Subsiding--a Deplorable Spectacle. a Young Lady Drowned. (By Telegraph.)
WEST MAITLAND, Thursday, 10 a.m.--The river at Maitland is now tailing rapidly. At present it is down about 2ft. 6in., and before the day is out it is expected it will have ceased…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods at Lithgow. (By Telegraph.)
LITHGOW, Thursday, 7.30 p.m.--The weather cleared last night, and during this morning only 11 points of rain were registered. The creeks are falling rapidly, though Farmer's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Rain and Floods
There is very little else to report about the late storm except the welcome intelligence that the flood-waters on the Hunter, Hawkesbury and Nepean are subsiding, slowly in some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hawkesbury Floods. the Waters Receding. (By Telegraph.)
WINDSOR, Thursday, 6.65 p.m.--To-day has been fine, only one slight shower having fallen in the morning. The flood-waters receded slowly all night, and at daylight were lower by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gale at Wollongong. Wollongong
The gale, which blew strongly since Friday, somewhat abated this morning, and now appears to be taking off. It was raining incessantly last night and to-day, and shows no sign of clearing up. The rainfall up to…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The steamer Beeswing, which arrived to-day from Newcastle, reports encountering a hurricane for 52 hours during the voyage. She lost boats and deck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Storm in Parramatta a Phenomenal Rainfall. Bridges and Roads Wrecked. a Terrific Gale. Railway and Telegraphic Interruptions
THE weather king has been around in full war-print and left unmistakeable evidences of his battle against the puny things of man. When the feeble,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Storm at Kiama. Kiama
The south-east gale continues unabated, and the sea along the coast is the heaviest seen for many years. During the afternoon some damage was done to the south-west pier of the Kiama basin, a portion of which…
Continued on Trove, page 1125 →The Storm at Wiseman's Ferry. Wiseman's Ferry
A very disastrous flood occurred hero and also one at M'Donald River on Monday last. At noon the water commenced running across the [?]t from the hotel, and at 6 o'clock in the evening the people living on the flat…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Five Days' Rain at Penrith. Heaviest Downpour Foe Nearly Quarter of a Century. Fears of Serious General Flood. Town Partially Under Water. High Street a Running Stream. Great Rising of the River. Peach Tree Creek Over the Bridge. Both Boatsheds Injured. Stores and Houses Wrecked. Business Entirely Suspended. £50 Damages to an Hotel. Visit of Mr. S. E. LEES, M.L.A. Resultant Incidents
There is perhaps no occasion on which the pen of a ready-writer feels more at a nonplus, to thoroughly grasp a great subject and transfer it bodily to paper, than…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Floods at Mattland
WEST MAITLAND, Friday.-The flood is now almost a circumstance of the past, as the water has left the streets of the town, and the inhabitants are beginning to realise the extent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Floods
The days intervening between Thursday last and Tuesday will long be remembered in the coast district as a period of fierce gales, black skies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[By Telegraph.] From Our Correspondents.) [?]He Flood at Maitland. Serious Landslips. West Maitland
The river continues falling slowly, but it will be some days yet before the whole of the Horseshoe Bend and similar low localities are free from the flood waters. A great deal of misery and distress exist in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Great Flood at St. Albans. the Court-house and Police Station Washed Away. Windsor
News is just to hand from Constable Gilbert, Wiseman's Ferry, that the court-house and police-station at St. Albans have been washed awany; also that nearly all the houses in the [?]at have been similarly treated. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Flood at Windsor. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Mr. Walker is very severe on the astronomers and meteorologists as to alleged failures of their predictions of the weather and floods. It is not my purpose to enter into any controversy with your correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Flood in the Hawkesbury. Windsor
The flood waters are slowly going down. To-day slight showers fell early, and the people were afraid they were about to have a downpour similar to those which fell at the beginning of the week; but the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Recent Floods and Rainfall. Continued Favourable Weather. Railway Communication Restored
Throughout yesterday in Sydney and the suburbs cloudy and at times threatening weather prevailed. Towards night the clouds dissolved into a general haze, and a heavy dowy moisturedescended. During the…
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