Cattle Boats in the Gales
SENSATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF THE TIME. The cattle steamers trading to West Australia appear to have fared badly in the gales that have been raging off the coast. Following the…
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Victims of the Storm
HARTLEY VALE, Tuesday.--Another search party, under Constable Bleechmore, were out all day yesterday, but were unsuccessful in finding the other missing man, Jas. Barton, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Rain Storm. Southerly Winds and Smart Showers
Yesterday witnessed the passage across the colony of the rain storm which was felt over the Western districts on Monday. The storm presented the usual characteristics of these ordinary winter disturbances, taking its…
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Some amusing instances are reaching the Railway Department as to the flood experiences on the various lines. At one of the stations in the Hawkesbury Valley, the stationmaster was flooded…
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BRAID WOOD, Tuesday.-At the warden's court yesterday several applications for dredging leases were disposed of. In each case the rent was fixed at £1 per acre on private lands, while…
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Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick asked the Colonial Secretary in the Assembly yesterday if his attention had been directed to the disastrous floods recently in the Hawkesbury, and…
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Owing to the heavy rain lust week, George's River rose about 16 or 18 feet on Thursday. As a consequence, Cahalan's paddock in Moorebank was mostly submerged through the…
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The American schooner Wrestler, which was towed in Wednesday evening by the Champion, has had an eventful passage from Chemainus. The vessel left that port, lumber laden[?]…
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LITHGOW, Wednesday.--No news has yet been received of James Barton, whose brother's dead body was discovered the other day in the Grose Valley. The district coroner to-day held…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Lumber Vessel in Distress. the Wrestler Makes Sydney for Shelter. Battered by Heavy Gales and Rough Seas. a Trying Experience
The American barquentine Wrestler, bound from British Columbia to Melbourne with a cargo of lumber, put into Sydney last evening in distress, and bearing traces of a severe buffeting…
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FORBES, Thursday.-Splendidly fine weather now prevails. The flood waters are fast receding from the town, and traffic is now able to cross the Lagoon bridges…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Hawkesbury Floods. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—In your issue of to-day is a list of Hawkesbury floods for the accuracy of which, it appears, [?] am held respansible. It has obviously been printed from a clamsily-prepared copy of a manuscript…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wagga Flood Relief Fund. Wagga
At a meeting of subscribers of the Wagga Flood Relief Fund held at the Town Hall last night the Mayor (Alderman Budd) who presided, explained that from the fund subscribed in 1870 for the relief…
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Replying to Mr. Brunker, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Minister for Works said he proposed submitting, as soon as possible, a motion to refer to the Public…
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WAGGA, Wednesday.--A meeting of subscribers to the flood relief fund was held last night, the Mayor (Alderman George Rudd) presiding. The amount of the fund is £501, part of which was…
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When the American barquentine Wrestler, bound from Chemainus to Melbourne, dropped anchor below Garden Island yesterday her decks revealed ample evidence that she had passed…
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Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, and Company have received a telegram from their Warren agent as follows: "Big flood north end of town. Houses under water; still rising." This is…
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A telegram received at the Post Office this morning states that traffic over the Hawkesbury Bridge at Richmond is still prevented, by reason of damage done to it by the recent flood…
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The recent floods in the Penrith district did an cnorinoiiN amount of damage to the wool-scouring works of Messrs. McGrath Bros., of Emu Plains. The firm nmdc no attempt to…
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M'Grath's works will be started in a few days The wool damaged by the flood was insured in the Yangtze Marino Company. Thirty bales of woolpacks were damaged, and a quantity of chemicals…
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