The Richmond River Floods
A deputation from the Richmond River district, accompanied by Messrs. Ewing, Ferry, and Nicoll, Ms.P., waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday with regard to…
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A deputation from the Richmond River district, accompanied by Messrs. Ewing, Ferry, and Nicoll, Ms.P., waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday with regard to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Thursday.--At the meeting of the committee of the central flood relief fund to-day, Alderman Clarke in the chair, the Rev. A. J. Webb moved--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Thursday.--The Governor has received a letter from Lord Ripon, the Sec[?]tary of State for the Colonics, expressing great regret at the lamentable floods in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, March 24.—A disastrous cyclone has passed over the State of Mississippi, United States. Cleveland and several other towns have been destroyed. It is feared…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A deputation consisting of the members for the Richmond waited upon the Minister for Works Thursday, to urge a scheme for the relief of the Richmond River at flood time. It was pointed out…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE would direct the attention of the charitable to the Relief Fund advertisement in this issue…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—The kindness of friends continues. If the flood-gates of heaven have been opened, letting a flood loose upon the fertile valley of the Hunter, to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A deputation waited upon the Minister for Works (Mr. Lyne) to-day concerning the frequency of floods in the Richmond River district, and asked that measures might be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In our issue of to-day is published the twelfth list of the Queensland flood relief fund, which shows total accounts £10,318 7s. A further sum of £500 has been forwarded to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Tuesday evening last the long-promised Christy Minstrel entertainment, in aid of the Floods’ Relief Fund, was given before a full and appreciative house. The fact that some of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—It is a problen, that the mont eminent engineers have so far failed to solve—how floods and their consequent ill effects on the Hunter Valley can be prevented. It would therefore be highly…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →On page 31 we give a view of Ironbark Creek, on the Maitland-road, as it appeared during the recent floods, and also a picture of the steamer Federal, stranded on Stockton Beach. The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sir,—May I crave sufficient space in your columns to suggest the desirability of the "powers that be" considering the wisdom of keeping the show open an extra day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The tender of Messrs. Chamberlain and Wyllie has been accepted for the temporary restoration of the Victoria Bridge, half of which was destroyed by the recent flood…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--During this week two large organisations (the Manchester Unity Order of Odd fellows and the Good Templars) will hold their annual session in Sydney, at which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →KIAMA, Saturday.--At a meeting of the Shellnarbor Council yesterday, the Mayor announced that the distriet had forwarded £46 to the treasurers of the northern rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was pleasant to see how nicely the weather cleared yesterday. How few persons who were out in the previous night's storm would have predicted so clear a day. True, the rain set in late…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hurricanes, gales, and cyclone storms are bad enough in all conscience in the tropical and semi-tropical latitudes, but in the North Atlantic in winter, such weather is terrible, in[?]eed. A letter from New York, describing such…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LAWSON, Tuesday.—Miss Goddard's pupils, of Glenroy School, near Lawson, gave a concert, with Indian club and dumbbell exercises, yesterday in aid of the West Maitland Flood Relief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fuller particulars are to hand by the R.M.S. Ionic of the recent cyclone at Madagasear. Among the marine disasters, the slap Caroline, ready laden for se[?], sank…
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