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Floods of a devastating character are reported from the north. The whole of the Tamworth district is deluged. It is not yet known whether any lives have been lost, but the damage done to stock and crops is appalling…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The rainfall of last week has proved even more remarkable than was anticipated. Gathering in intensity as it went it has become a deluge in the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The great flood at Tamworth has naturally caused considerable concern to Mr. R. H. Levlen, M. L. A., the representative of the district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As a result of the heavy general rains last week the northern portion of the Stale is experiencing a most disastrous flood. So far as can be ascertained the country…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday,—Mr. Bowling has more than once found himself in hot water. On Friday night, after a meeting of the miners at West Wallsend, he had the experience of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TAMWORTH, Sunday.—The flood has entirely subsitded, now, and the full effect of the devastating flood is altogether too apparent. As far as the lower side of peel street and Lower-street is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →One of the most disastrous floods of recent years is reported from the North as the result of the recent phenomenal rainfall. Practically the whole of the country between, Maitland and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Tasmanian passenger steamer [?] Union S.S. Company's [?], which arrived here yesterday with 72 passengers from Devonport, via Eden, ran into a strong south-easterly gale, accompanied by high…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Castlercagh River came down at 5 o' clock yesterday morning overflowing the banks on the western, side above the hospital also on both sides of the lower portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Very considerable damage was caused by the floods in the Inverell district. The rise in the Gwydir River was the highest ever recorded, and the great volume of waters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Acting Premier, Mr. C. A. Lee, received telegrams this afternoon from Moree, which indicates that there has been an unprecedented flood there, wrecking bridges and approaches,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DAME NATURE is rather an erratic old lady in her arrangement of the Australian climate, and the floods in tie Nortn-West serve as one more example of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WARIALDA, Tuesday.—The food is the biggest known in this part of the country. Dams and fencing have been washed away ina all [?]irections. The railway line is in a WEST MATTLAND, Tuesday.—All forebodings of a disastrous flood have disappeared with the return of fine weather, and the river, which had flown to a height of about 31ft, is slowly,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Is Narrabri under water? This is a question which was being asked in Sydney this morning with a good deal of concern. No information could be obtained, as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Deputy Postmaster-General, Mr. E. J. Young, received a telegram this morning from the post and telegraph master at the flooded town of Wee Waa, stating that the waters were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tamworth people had a bad time last weekened, as the heavy rains brought along the biggest flood the town has experienced for the past 45 years. On…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gunnedah and the district for miles around are in a chaotic condition. The flood which swept through Tamworth on Saturday morning reached here the same night, and was the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I would be obliged if you would allow me to make, through the "Herald," the suggestion that a "flood relief fund" should at once be opened to help those that have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Brunswick River is in flood. On Sunday the steam launch Brunswick berthed in Chinbible Creek, was washed down into the main arm, and sank about 50 yards below Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The State Government, although as yet very much in the dark as to the exact nature of the damage and loss of life as a result of the recent disastrous floods, is…
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