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  2. DISASTROUS FLOODS.

    SOME of the most fertile regions of the colony have been inundated by floods of unprecedented magnitude. This visitation has not passed away without causing loss of life, though happily the number of persons ...

    Article : 2,619 words
  3. THE MURRUMBIDGEE.

    OUR Wagga Wagga correspondent telegraphs on the 28th ultimo:—The Murrumbidgee rose rapidly on the 21st instant after much bad weather from the eastward, and on Saturday night, 22nd, it broke its banks, flooding into the ...

    Article : 157 words
  4. PATERSON.

    JUNE 27.—This district has again been visited by another disastrous flood. For the second time this year has the valley of the Paterson been inundated, and the labours of our settlers swept away by the mighty waters. ...

    Article : 296 words
  5. ARALUEN.

    ON the 24th instant, a correspondent of the Brai[?] Dispatch writes to that journal as follows:—It is my painful duty to have to record another flood, being the fifth within a period of three months. This flood has been ...

    Article : 404 words
  6. RAYMOND TERRACE.

    JUNE 25.—Our correspondent writes:—It is my painful duty to record a flood greater than any we have had within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, that has ruined our district, and has reduced to the extremest poverty ...

    Article : 235 words
  7. BRAIDWOOD.

    THE Braidwood Dispatch, of June the 22nd, states:— Never before in the history of this colony since it was firsts occupied by the white man has such a series of floods been experienced as we have had during the post three months. ...

    Article : 328 words
  8. THE STORM AT NEWCASTLE.

    THE violence of the storm was very great at Newcastle, though, providentially, comparatively few casualties occurred among the shipping. The lifeboat crew was, however, in [?]nent peril, and one of the brave fellows perished in the ...

    Article : 1,388 words
  9. SHOALHAVEN.

    A CORRESPONDENT of the Kiama Pilot reports:—Monday Morning, June 25th.—We have been visited with a most disastrous flood. The rain commenced to fall in light showers on Tuesday and Wednesday. On ...

    Article : 261 words
  10. WELLINGTON

    JUNE 24 —Our correspondent reports that the highest flood since 1864 occured on the afternoon of the 22nd ultimo, when the River Macquarie, swollen by the waters of the Turon, the Cudgegong, and innumerable creeks, came ...

    Article : 262 words
  11. "WISEMAN'S FERRY AND THE MACDONALD RIVER.

    The following particulars as to the effects of the floods at the above places have been furnished to us by a gen[?]leman who arrived in Sydney overland from Wollombi on the 27th:—"At Wiseman's Ferry, the Wesleyan church, Mr. ...

    Article : 247 words
  12. GOULBURN.

    THE Southern Argus of 22nd instant gives the following particulars of the flood in the above locality:—The rainfall which began on Monday night, June 17th, and which has continued with but little interruption ever since, has caused ...

    Article : 113 words
  13. YASS.

    THE Courier of the 22nd reports that rain began to fall steadily soon after sundown on Tuesday, 18th instant, and has continued with only brief intermissions to the time we are writing. During Wednesday night there was the ...

    Article : 74 words
  14. MUDGEE.

    THE Western Post, June 25th, reports: —The almost continous rains that have fallen during the past week have cut us off completely from any communication with either the metropolis or any other district. Three or four ...

    Article : 274 words
  15. BROKEN BAY.

    JUNE, 24.—Our correspondent reports:—We have had tremendous weather, but, as far as Pitt Water is concerned, no damage has been done, with the excemption to one of our picturesque curiosities, St. Michael's ...

    Article : 284 words
  16. BATHURST[?]

    HEAVY rains fell here almost continually from Monday, the 17th, to Saturday, the 22nd June, when Macquarie at day break was running nearly bank high, and with such velocity as to indicate great pressure from waters ...

    Article : 407 words
  17. SINGLETON.

    AT daylight on Saturday morning the town presented a most dismal appearance. That portion of George-stre[?]t from Cullen's corner to Jarman's shop, with the exception of a small ridge opposite the Caledonian Hotel, was ...

    Article : 682 words
  18. THE HAWKESBURY[?]

    WRITING on fhe 23rd, our special reporter says:—The town of Windsor itself is almost entirely submerged, and the country for miles around is under water. The only parts of the township now habitable are ...

    Article : 1,596 words
  19. BURRANDONG.

    THE following particulars of the melancholy catastrophe at Burrandong have been furnished to the Bathurst Times by Mr. F. B. Suttor, who held a magisterial inquiry into the matter:— ...

    Article : 1,802 words
  20. THE PASTORAL INTEREST.

    THE squatters have benefited by the heavy rains of last month, and instead of mourning over losses, like their humbler brethren the agriculturalists, they are anticipating greater prizes than ever. The country is looking beautiful. ...

    Article : 195 words
  21. BULL[?]

    A FEARFUL disaster occurred at the above place on Friday. For some time past men have been engaged putting now legs to the jetty, removing and replacing faulty ones, &c. On the day in question a heavy gale was blowing. To ...

    Article : 252 words
  22. MAITLAND

    THE folowing account of the flood in this district is furnished to us by a gentlemen who traversed the district on his way from Singleton to Newcastle:—He says it rained pretty heavily on Tuesday and Wednesday the 18th and 19th. ...

    Article : 1,723 words
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