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NEWCASTLE, Sunday, 5 p.m.--The residents of Ash Island, some nine miles up the Hunter River from Newcastle, underwent great privation and suffering from the effects…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The flood-waters are fortunately receding at a fast rate, and a large portion of the district is comparatively clear, small dirty-colored lakelets, remaining in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WEST MEITLAND, Tuesday.—The flood is gradually subsiding, and the enormous amount of damage and destruction can now be seen. The High-street embankment is a complete…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.—The destruction caused by the floods at and around Maitland, Morpeth, Raymond Terrace and Miller's Forest, is now seen to be enormous. Houses innumerable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND, Tuesday.—Heavy floods have occurred in Wellington and its suburbs. In the Tinakori-road the residents had to be rescued in boats. Damage has been done to Thornden…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The floods in Wellington and suburbs, particularly at Hutt, are the worst known for 22 years. In the Tinakori-road the residents had to be rescued in boats. Damage has been done to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Premier, Sir George Dibbs, arrived in Sydney last night after his eventful trip to the North. When leaving Sydney on Tuesday last, in company with Messrs. Wright, Cruickshank, and A. Hutchison,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Now that the flood is slowly receding some slight idea of the enormous damage and destruction of property can be gleaned. The greater part of the town looks desolate in the extreme, and it will take…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest intelligence from all quarters confirms the fact that as far as the Newcastle district is concerned the flood is steadily subsiding. The fresh at the mouth of the river is also decreasing in force. This…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday, in conversation with a reporter, the Minister for Public Works said that the question of preventing, or at any rate minimising, the floods in the Hunter River district had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Marine Board received the following telegrams this afternoon regarding the state of the various coastal bar entrances affected by the floods:--…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wagga Wagga Superior Public School has forwarded the sum of £3 7s 3d to the Queensland flood relief fund committee, through Mr. J. S. Middenway, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The trip of the Premier, Sir George Dibbs, from Muswellbrook to Sydney is one that he is not likely to forget in a hurry, and one which should tend to give him some…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Macleay district has been these last few days visited by the most disastrous floods experienced during the past 18 years. On Thursday night rain commenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The floods caused a good deal more damage in this neighborhood than was at first realised. Plattsburg suffered somewhat severely from the inundation, and a large…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Public Works Department have for many years had under consideration the question of coping with the floods in the Hunter River district. This has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →By dint of pressing into service all available means of transit -- boat, buggy, steamer, and train -- Sir George Dibbs and those accompanying him were enabled to reach…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The control committee of the Queensland relief fund received yesterday further sub scriptions in aid of the Queensland relief fund amounting to over £160. The residents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EAST MAITLAND, Monday, 9 p.m. -- The floods are at last making a substantial subsidence. East Maitland is virtually clear, though the waters continue to rush with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Dangar and Hogan, Ms.P. for Macleay, have received the following telegram from the Mayor of Kempsey : -- "Immense damage dor[?]e at Kempsey to roads and…
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