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In our illustrated section appears some particulars (accompanied by pictures) of the serious damage experienced in the town of Tamworth. Later news is to the effect that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Latest advices to the Chief Engineer's Department, Government Railway, point to the fact that although enormous damage has been done, and that there are still many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Boats!" is the cry raised by the people in the flooded country in the north. It was imperative to get a boat through to Woe Waa. The craft was launched at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Namol and Barwon rivers are rising rapidly here, and a big inundation is appro-bended. Stock are being hurriedly removed from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When seen yesterday the Chief Engineer for Existing Lines stated to a "Daily Telegraph" representative that the department was practically ignorant as to the amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BOGGABRI, Tuesday.--The flood at Gunnedah struck a note of tragedy, but it was also responsible for scenes of infinite pathos. This morning the opportunity was afforded of visiting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →GRAFTON, Tuesday.--Owing to the fresh in the river large masses of water hyacinth have been floating down from the upper portion of the Clarence during the last 36 hours. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WALGETT, Tuesday.--Owing to the flood the postal service between here and Sydney is disorganised. The train has ceased running, and the last mail received here bore the date…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The heavy rain that fell throughout the State during the past week, though it will do an incalculable amount of good, has also done an immense amount of damage in the town and district of Tamworth the prosperous northern centre having been visited by one of the most disastrous floods in its history. The flood water came down from the higher levels, and the Peel River on the banks of which Tamworth is situated, overflowed, and Peel-street, the main thoroughfare of the town, was soon a rushing, seething; torrent of water, and for miles around the country was under water. The flood water reached a depth of 6ft and needless to say, despite the fact that shopkeeper and other who had received warning that a flood…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Many of the districts in the north of New South Wales, from Quirindi up to inverell and Moree, have been visited by very serious floods, causing great destruction to property; running…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →At the end of September last year, soon after the John Flood Memorial movement was inaugurated, a communication was sent to the United Irish League, Dublin…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Disastrous inundations used to occur [?] the Clarence and Richmond Rivers every two or three years, and several bankers in one year were not uncommon. Towns and…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The present big flood at Tamworth, and at other places on the upper tributaries of the Namoi is a reminder that such visitations have been far…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →ThE memory of the oldest resident from the slopes of New England to the outskirts of the plains contains no record of a greater flood than that experienced at Tamworth and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →At the end of September last year, soon after the John Flood Memorial movement was inaugurated, a communication was sent to the United Irish League, Dublin,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A large amount of the. prosperity of the country districts of this date depends upon the temper of the elements, and it is the tendency of the elements to go to extremes…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE TAMWORTH SHOW GROUND PAVILLION THE BUILDING WAS CARRIED ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YARDS BY THE FLOOD WATERS, AND WRECKED AGAINST THE TREE…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reports from Invererell state that Cope's Greek was very high on Saturday, and the water rushed down and flooded the lover portion of Tingha, causing damage to bouse property, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One of the dread after-effects of the flood is illustrated by the contents of a telegram received this morning by the Engineer-in-Chief for Railway Construction,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Will there be an epidemic of fever or other sickness in the flood-swept district after the swollen rivers have subsided again? It is a matter of common knowledge, of course, that…
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