More Farms Flooded. Bulahdelah
Heavy rain fell here on Sunday, causing a flood. It was very heavy on the Upper Myall. Nearly all the farms were flooded. The Myall River rose 17ft, covering the public whart…
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Coastal Rivers in Flood. Dungog Flats Submerged. Dungog
The steady rain which fell on Thursday and Friday was followed by a heavy downpour at intervals from Saturday morning till Sunday evening, by which time the river had risen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Hunter in Flood Anxiety at Newcastle. Low Flats Under Water. People Rescued From Housetops. Street Submerged. Newcastle
The phenomenal rain, which has been falling during the last few days, still continues. Since yesterday morning 10 inches have been recorded, and there is at present no…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods at Newcastle Many Places Under Water Some Exciting Rescues Good Work by the Police Newcastle, 2.10 p.m
So rapidly did the flood waters resulting from yesterday's heavy rain rise in Steel-street and over the whole of the gas works and the old racecourse flats, that in places,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the Maitland District Heaviest Rain Since 1898 Large Area Flooded. West Maitland
Torrential rains, the like of which have not been experienced since the memorable flood of 1893, have been falling since Saturday, giving a total of 908 points for 48 hours. The…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday Night--The, heavy rainfall in the city last night and during the early hours, of to-day caused a great body of water to accumulate on the drainage area near…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Waters. Remarkable Rain in the North. Record-breaking Falls. When the Hunter Overflows Farmers and Dairymen Suffer
WEST MAITLAND, Monday.--Though the rain eased off yesterday afternoon, inspiring people, with the hope that the change which had yielded an almost phenomenal fall, had…
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BULAHDELAH, Monday.--Nine hundred and nine points of rain have fallen since Friday. Myall River is flooded, and almost all the farms are submerged, resulting in enormous losses…
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GLOUCESTER, Monday.--Heavy rain fell from Saturday morning until yesterday afternoon, 690 points being recorded. The Gloucester, Barrington, Avon, and Barnard rivers are still in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Previous Floods. the Unparalleled Scenes of 1893
There have been many floods in the Hunter district, though not of late years; but the severest was that of March, 1893, when the river rose to a height of 37ft. at Maitland, and 50ft. 6in. at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Devastating Cyclone. Extensive Damage at Kalgoorlie. New Town-hall Suffers
KALGOORLIE (W.A.), Tuesday.--Following upon a series of thunderstorms, a cyclone, accompanied by heavy rain, passed over Kalgoorlie late this afternoon, causing extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cyclone at Kalgoorlie. Buildings Levelled to the Ground. Hospital Patients Swept Out of Bed. Kalgoorlie (W.a.)
Kalgoorlie is almost in toal darkness due to a cyclone which passed over the centre of the town shortly after 4 o'clock with disastrous results. Sweeping from away to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood in the Hawkesbury. St. Albans Inundated. the Macdonald Rises Forty Feet. Residents Driven From Their Homes
WINDSOR, Wednesday.—From news to hand, it Would appear that serious floods have occurred in the Lower Hawkesbury. Most of the streams overflowed their backs, extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hunter Floods. Water Slowly Receding. Residents Provisioned by Boats. a Phenomental Sight. West Maitland
Messrs. King and Schute, engineers of the Public Works Department, arrived to-day to make an inspection of the river in its present state of flood. Both officers were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Floods at Newcastle the Water Receding Narrow Escapes From Drowning Newcastle
The rain has at last stopped, though the weather conditions overhead are anything but settled. The flood waters at the southeastern portion of the city are now receding…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The effects of the recent heavy rainfall have almost entirely disappeared in this district. The low-lying parts in the city and suburbs were again dry to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Agricultural and Pastoral. the State of the Country. Floods on the Rivers
During the past week further splendid falls of rain have been experienced over a wide area of the State. For the most part they have been of a steady soaking nature, but portions of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hunter Floods. Lucerne Crops Saved. West Maitland
The flood waters continue to drain off the farms slowly along the course of the river, leaving the usual rich deposit of silt, but along the Wallis and Fishery creeks the…
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A RESCUE BOAT IN STEELE STREET THE GASWORKS SURROUNDED BY WATER…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Northern River Floods. Waters Abating
TAREE, Wednesday.--The river was in a flooded state on Sunday and Monday, but yesterday fell to almost summer level again. All the low-lying country was submerged, and in many…
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