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At yesterday's meeting of the Water and Sewerage Board the engineer (Mr. J. M. Smail) recommended an expenditure of £30 in altering man-holes over Wattle-street brick sewer for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The weather was again delightfully cool in Sydney this morning, with a cloudy sky and a light south-easterly wind blowing. Similar conditions prevailed over the colony generally, with strong…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE. Friday.-The ship Cambrian Monarch, which arrived to-day from Melbourne, experienced the full brunt of the recent disastrous storm on the coast. Captain Richard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ketch Annie, while crossing the Manning bar yesterday, struck and went on the north beach. She is not in danger. The schooner Mariner was lost on the Three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. H. C. Russell has issued a chart showing the total rainfall over the colony from the 10th to the 15th instant, including the recent heavy storms. The rain was general over the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The 52 ton ketch Envy, Captain. John Strachan, J.P., was another vessel overtaken by the recent gales off the coast, but by good seamanship on the part of her genial skipper she came through the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON February 17, 6.10 p.m.-A terrible storm has passed over the Gulf of Finland. During the storm the ice broke, and two hundred fishermen were carried out to sea…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The rainfall of the past four or five days has been the heaviest here for years past all the creeks being flooded, the rivers' running bankers, and very great damage,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During a fearful storm on the coast of Fin land the ice upon which were a large number of fishermen broke up and two hundred of the unfortunate men were carried out to sea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lying at a snug anchorage below Garden Island is the spar-shattered ship Industrie, flying the German tricolour. It has already been reported that she was sighted down tho coast miking for Sydney. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Premier has telegraphed to Mr. Brunker, the Colonial Secretary, stating that he " rejoices that New South Wales has had such a magnificent fall of rain, but deeply…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy rain continued incessantly since Friday until Monday, the total foil being 27in. The bridge is covered with water, and considerable damage has been done to the roads Dr. Mceke had a narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We have had about 4½in of rain, which will do a world of good Matters were previously looking serious. The Namoi Rifor is now a banker, and with the water now coming down there is every…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Now that communication in the Bega district is being gradually restored consequent upon the receding of the flood waters, accounts are coirnug to hand of tho great destruction to the crops wrought by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mount Browne mail arrived last night and brought in further reports of rains and floods An additional inch fell at White Clifis,making the total about 6in., and causmg all the watercourses to run strongly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Circulars were forwarded yesterday to a number of settlers and others in the Hunter River district notifying them that a conference will be held at Raymond Terrace on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The mail train had a miraculous escape from destruction at the scene of an extensive washaway on the line. Within several miles of the town the engine passed over a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Brunker, received several telegrams from the Premier on Wednesday on the subject of the floods. In his first wire he says:--"I rejoice that New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The recent heavy rains have done a good deal to throw into disrepair the streets of the various municipalities of the Illawarra suburbs and Rockdale suffers to a far greater extent than…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Howling and shrieking winds, with the velocity of gales, and heavy rain, driven before it at a sharp angle, or falling with the weight of a hailstorm between the fiercer gusts, prevailed from…
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