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Sir,--In your Saturday's issue you publish a letter, signed "William Webster," in regard to a remedy for the above. While welcoming every expression of opinion favorable to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne, Tuesday.-The Murray and Campaspe Rivers are rising at Echuca in consequence of the recent floods. At Donald the Richardson is in flood. The waters have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London, June 4.-Telegrams from New York state that twenty robbers, who were caugnt depoiling the dead from the terrible floods on the Conemangh River, have been lynched. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There have been greater floods, attended by even greater loss of life, than the visitation, which has just devastated the southern border of Pennsylvania, and given a fresh and dreadful…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last night a public meeting, convened by tho Mayor of Marrickville, was held in the Town-hall to consider the question of the low-lying lands on the eastern side of the borough. Alderman Graham (as Mayor)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Later details from the scene of the disaster in the Pittsburgh district state that the residents of Johnstown received timely warning that the reservoir was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A meeting convened by the Mayor, Mr. Jonn [?] was held this evening at the old Masonic Hall for the purpose of devising means for the mitigation of floods in the Hunter. The hall was densely crowded, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Great floods are reported from Uraua; the highest yet known. All the lowlying ground is under water. Lake Cullivel has overflowed, and a large quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, This Day.--Three men, named T. Eddy, J. H. Williams, and J. White, had a narrow escape from death by drowning in the Great Britain Mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the recent disastrous floods at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Railway Co.'s losses are estimated at 15,000,000dol. Thousands of fam[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN response to a request from Mr. Taylor, M.L.A., the Minister for Works has agreed to send an officer of his department to inspect the Parramatta River near the dam,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE calamity reported in our cable news of the last few days conveying particulars of the distinction of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is one of almost unparalleled…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Armies of men are at work recovering the dead bodies of the persons drowned and burned in the floods at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Already upwards of 3000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting was held at the town-hall, Marrickville, last night to devise a scheme of improving Tramvale. The ball was crowded. The Mayor of Marrickville (Alderman J…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Tuesday.--Reports received from Urana show that the floods there are the highest since 1870. Yesterday the water was running through the gardens at Brookong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--The flood waters in the Hunter River are now rapidly falling and the river will soon be down to its old level. With regard to the great landslips…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE INUNDATIONS AT MARRICKVILLE: RESCUING THE HOMELESS. THE ORIENT S.S. 'ORIZABA' ENTERING THE HEADS…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At a meeting of the Royal Society of New South Wales, held last evening, Mr. H. C. Russell, Government Astronomer, made the following remarks with reference to the recent heavy rainfall:—"It is not my…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Lark, Captain James Irving, put into Moreton Bay on Saturday last to repair damages sustained in a heavy gale. The vessel is bound from Cairns to Melbourne. She left Cairns on the 8th ult…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London, June 5.-It is proposed to fire the debris accumulated at Johnstown, United States, by the recent terrible floods, in order to destroy the bodies which lie thickly buried in it…
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