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For some time past the river has not been fordable owing to the continual rain, for since the summer set in we have had rain almost continuously. But on Wednesday the river rose rapidly every hour, and by…
Continued on Trove, page 626 →There is no doubt that apart from unauthenticated rumours there has been fell disaster by flood throughout the Namoi district. This visitation, like every succeeding flood, gives a fresh record as to the altitude…
Continued on Trove, page 626 →There has been no season within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant so prolific of rain as the present, and therefore one cannot wonder at the result being another flood. During the past week the daily papers…
Continued on Trove, page 625 →There will have been a very general feeling of sympathy with those who hare suffered from the almost unprecedentedly high floods which have taken place on nearly all the rivers northward…
Continued on Trove, page 632 →1. The Hawkesbury in its ordinary condition. 2. The same under flood. 3. Scene near Dubbo during the flood. 4. Horses taking refuge on an island formed by the flood in the Nepein. 5. Accident to the mail coach heat Braidwood…
Continued on Trove, page 645 →The floods in the valley of the Mississippi have proved disastrous. At Memphis the river is 40 miles wide, and an extensive area of country is inundated…
Continued on Trove, page 634 →When our last week's number of the Mail went to press, the telegraph lines between Sydney and Brisbane were interrupted by floods, railway communication also being cut off. We had then been without…
Continued on Trove, page 648 →Continuous rain accompanied by boisterous wind, was the experience of Brisbane, and a great portion of Queensland, last week, and on Wednesday night, 12th inst., the Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →GRAFTON SUBMERGED. BRISBANE INUNDATED. The floods that have, in Queensland and New South Wales, followed the late heavy rains have been more disastrous than any…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BOURKE, Friday.--The danger of a flood has in no way subsided, and the river continues to rise steadily. Work in connection with the dam that is to be constructed round…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mrs. Scholes, wife of the medical superintendent of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum has donated L200 towards the Flood Relief Fund, which has now reached L2200…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Friday.--Mrs. Scholes, wife of the medical superintendent of the Insane Asylum at Goodna, has donated £209 to the flood, relief fund, which has now reached £2290…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEST MAITLAND, March 17.—The all-absorbing topic of conversation in our midst at the present time is the dreadful flood with which we have been visited daring the past week. Rain set in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr. N. Bartley, an old and respected citizen writes to the local press as follows: "The only true test is the main drain, the Brisbane River as to which is the highest flood. In 1841 the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The floods commenced to fall on Thursday, and although only gradual at first, it became more pronounced as the day wore on. In the evening t[?]e subsidence was rapid; a fact which was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BRISBANE, March 14.—Queensland has perhaps sustained two of the most disastrous catastrophes lately that are yet recorded in her history. The Quetta disaster was the one subject of all others…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mrs. Dunlop, wife of the late engineer of the Booroodabin Divisional Board, was delivered of a child at Francis-street, Strattan, while the flood waters were rapidly rising. The waters continued…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →NEW YORK, March. 14.—Fr.shets of an unprecedented character, caused by torrential spring rains that have fallen over a vast extent of country, have during the past…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The weather changed this afternoon, a south-cast gale accompanied by heavy squalls of rain setting in shortly before 5 o'clock. The iron barque…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting of ratepayers and owners ef property on the Eveleigh Junction Estate was held on Saturday in Park-street, Macdonaldtown, for the purpose of considering what action should…
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