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Sir,--The actual causes of the streets of this handsome little town being subject to floods during heavy rains are the outside waters from the high grounds on the north…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- No sign of the body of the man Garnet drowned yesterday by the flooding of the colliery at Tighe's-hill has yet been discovered. Plant worth £1000 has all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Sunday.--Heavy floods have occurred at Welford Lagoons. The telegraph office had to be closed. The occupants retired to higher ground. The flood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the last meeting of the Victorian Marine Board Captain Jorgensen, who designed and Bailed his lifeboat the Storm King from England to Australia, attended to explain the merits of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A hailstorm occurred last night of unusual violence, lasting a quarter of an hour. The windows in all the churches w[?] broken, and but few in any buildings escaped. Many iron roofs were pierced, fruit of all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The lower Barcoo is flooded. Ten inches of rain fell in one night. Three men were living on pigweed for three days at Mount Marlow, having been stuck-up by floods…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Last night the Government astronomer received a telegram from Walgett stating that there had been heavy rains in the whole district round, and that these would probably lead…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--The schooner Fern, which left here for Sydney on Monday night last, returned to port this afternoon. When off Terrigal yesterday she encountered the full…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Fern, which loft here on Monday night for Sydney, when off Terrigal met the full force of the southerly gale, which carried away her fore topsail yard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamship Rockton arrived in harbor at 9 o'clock lust night from an extensive South Sea Island trip, including a cruise to New Caledonia, New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Thursday.—The river has risen very rapidly during the past few days owing to an accumulation of snow on the mountains and the warm weather recently experienced. The late…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 3in. of rain fell last night, causing the greatest floods seen here for years. It is still raining. The rain will interfere very much with harvesting operations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is raining in almost every portion of the colony, the rainfall being from lin. to 10in. Rivers in many places are flooded, particularly in the central aud south-western…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrific gale is reported from Burketown. It occurred yesterday, and lasted 36 hours, with incessant rain. Twenty-four inches were registered, and the country is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BOURKE, Friday.—The weather here is still very rough. Bain has fallen incessantly since 8 o'clock on Thursday morning. At 9 o'clock this morning 435 points had fallen. Bourke is again…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. WILLIS, M.L.A., has received the following telegram with reference to the floods on the Culgoa River:--"Tremendously heavy rain has fallen up the river, and a big flood…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BOURKE, Thursday.--There has been a complete change in the weather in this district. Rain commenced to fall at Bourke on Wednesday and throughout the day cold wintry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All the meteorological stations in the northern portion of the colony have reported rain, and the storm which had during the early part of the week been travelling in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrific gale is reported from Burketown. It occurred yesterday, and lasted 36 hours, with incessant rain. Twenty-four inches were registered, and the country is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At a meeting of the Marino Board to-day the president (Captain Fallarton), on behalf of the subscribers, presented a purse of 146 sovereigns to Captain Jorgensen, the inventor of the…
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