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This complimentary banquet, at which the residents of Randwick last, night entertained Alderman George Gale, was a fitting acknowledgment of the services rendered to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Telegrams which came to hand yesterday morning showed that the rainfall during the preceding 24 hours was again confined to the northern, part of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The welcome news that the flood waters in the north, which it was feared would result in disastrous consequences, are now receding was flashed across the wi[?] last from the affected districts. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WEST MATTLAND, Thursday.—Although to-day was doll, and there was an attempt or two at a shower this morning, there is evidence that the weather is breaking, a consummation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday Afternoon. —Owing to breakages in the embankments, the beautiful expanse of country, consisting mainly of alluvial flats, now presents a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Over 4 inches fell here in a week; 9 inches at Tambar. 10 at Mullaley, 11 at Bando, and 15 at Rocky Glen. The Coonabarabran coach due on Monday night was unable to get through. The mails were packed from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A gang of men had to be put on the railway viaduct last night, the flood waters having started the approaches. The police, who were out on the other side of the river wanting people since Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WEB WAA, Wednesday.--News has just reached town that Clements, with his wife and children, were rescued at Merah' by Mr. John Ryan. Constable Philpot, and an aboriginal who went…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MAITLAND, Wednesday. -- The weather, though it remained fine all day, is still unsettled and threatening further rain. The river, which reached a maximum height…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When the world was young, there arose a great argument between the trees as to which of them was the strongest. A hoary oak spoke first. " I am king of the trees," said he, " a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →RAYMOND TERRACE, Thursday.--Most of the flats are still covered with water. There is a very large deposit of slit left on the land where the water has receded. Traffic was resumed by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WEE WAA, Thursday.--The railway line near Round Swamp has been repaired sufficiently to carry the trains, and a goods train came through from Narrabri last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →If the Bourke people, with a dyke of sand bags across the Darling River, could keep the steamers running above that town for months in the drought, what could not the Government do? The Darling rises mostly from the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Says our Melbourne corespondent:—Floods in February! Yes. The poor settlers of the Carrum swamp lands on the Stony Point line some twenty-two miles from Melbourne, have…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →WEST MAITLAND, Friday.—The weather this afternoon is dull, with every promise of more rain in the immediate future but even that prospect does not disturb the people, who have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy rain has caused serious floods in Southland, where railway traffic is interrupted. At Balclutha the river rose 11½ft, flooding many houses and necessitating the removal of several…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →WELLINGTON, Friday.--Heavy rains have fallen in the Southland and Otago districts. The Molyneux and Mataura Rivers are in high flood. Settlers are suffering considerable loss,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Eleven thousand barrels of good fresh beer were turned loose into the river from a brewery in New York. The brewery corporation known as Conrad…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WELLINGTON, Sunday.--The floods In the Otago and Southland districts have subsided. Opotiki is a small township near Tauranga, in the Bay of Plenty, The population is about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Saturday.--The whole township, of Opotiki, and the country for some miles beyond, has been completely submerged owing to a heavy flood…
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