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The rain of the past four days resulted in the largest flood known in the district. Farmers and dairymen are heavy losers of stock and maize crops. Numerous families were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers in the Manning River district were heavy sufferers from the floods that have caused great damage on the mid-north coast. Two young men were drowned, one in the Upper Manning, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Damage to the amount of at least £250,000 has been caused in the Manning River district by the disastrous floods of the last few days. Scores of farms situated on Taree Estate…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In late reports the N.R.M.A. Touring Department advises flint the main north coast road is still Impassable at Frederickton, Clybucca, and south of Telegraph Point…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After the fire, the flood. That is to-day. as it has so often been in the past, the experience of many of our country districts: and a disastrous combination the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Government intends taking immediate steps to expedite repairs of roads damaged by floods. Money has been telegraphed to local…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The torrential rains which fell throughout the Upper Hawkesbury watershed during the past, 24 hours have caused anxiety among settlers…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →THE HASTINGS FLOOD.--The flooding of the Hastings River, near Wauchope has covered the country for miles. It rose very nearly to the level of the railway bridge. NEW INLAND SEA.--This view of the covered railway line near Wauchope gives an idea of the extent of the floods in that district. The sea even has its…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Hawkesbury River rose Very rapidly this morning. The road between Windsor and Richmond was blocked to car traffic. The picture on the left shows the water on the road at noon; the middle picture shows the Richmond bridge completely under water and the picture on the right shows the water banking up against the bridge at Windsor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reports from Tarce state that the floods have subsided sufficiently to allow of repairs being effected to the damaged permanent way between…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stock and crops have suffered heavily in the district around Taree, in the worst flood since 1866. George Fall, a farmer, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FOLLOWING a torrential downpour of rain, many residents in the heart of Cessnock were driven from their homes at midnight last night. Rain pelted down in sheets Continuously from 10 p.m. till midnight, and flood waters, which threatened many homes in Westr[?] and Matthew…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →May I draw attention to a serious state of affairs in Homebush -- the interference by the Water Board with the clearance of flood waters by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cheers from railwaymen and friends waiting on No. 1 platform greeted the North Coast Mail when she steamed into Central Station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hawkesbury River rose at an alarming rate in the Windsor and Richmond districts yesterday, and during the afternoon was 26 feet above summer level. The creeks and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THE following warning in [?] was issued from the Weather [ ?] to-day. "There are evidences of a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer, Peel Castle (1474 tons), with nearly 100 passengers on board, was exposed for 16 hours to a blinding snow storm and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is officially reported that the King spent a disturbed night on Monday, owing to the high gale blowing from the Channel;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Litster, who arrived from Broome yesterday with three luggers owned by Gregory and Co., pearlers, interviewed this morning, stated: "I left Broome on Sunday,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →TWELVE thousand fight fans stood breathless in the last moments of the fight, thrilled to the spine by a great encounter. They awaited the verdict…
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