I have arrived on the Upper Manning just in time to witness the highest flood but one ever known on the river. The rain came from the south cast, and descended for fifty hours —from Thursday to Saturday afternoon—when the river ...
Article : 578 wordsTHIS present war has been prolific in the illustrations of the value of Fraemasonary in dangerous emergencies, and the anecdotes are endless of the lives saved by its means. Among the cartloads of ...
Article : 676 wordsThe river commenced rising on Thursday evening, and before midday on Friday was up about ten feet. It continued rising till 9 o'clock on Saturday night, by which time nearly the whole of the cultivation land at Euroka and ...
Article : 548 wordsOn Thursday, says the Macleay Herald of 25th November, the rain was incessant, and on Friday and the following night a complete downpour took place. Saturday brought a lull in the weather, and the sun shone out with great heat. The ...
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Advertising : 3,380 wordsThe flood was six inches or eight inches less at Rolland's Plains than in 1864, but was most desastrous. There were a few horses drowned at Wallaby Hill, and a cow at Mr. [?]aylor's, at Ballangary. Mr. Woodlands lost some twelve ...
Article : 79 wordsOn the Hastings we learn that the flood was six inches higher at Rawden Island than in 1864. The corn on anything approaching low land has been sweptaway. Sugar-cane appa. rently is not injured. Mr. Morrison was going to commence ...
Article : 67 wordsA correspondent of the Macleay Herald, from which these particulars are abridged, writing on the 22nd Novomber states:—I am truly sorry to have to inform you that we have been visited with a very disastrous flood, which has caused ...
Article : 290 wordsAnother correspondent, writing on the 21st November says: —It is with a sad heart I sit down to give you a hasty account of the ruin and havoc which meet one's eyas on every side, from one end of the river to the ...
Article : 688 wordsA correspondent writing from Port Macquarie, states:— The Bastings has experienced a severe flood. On Saturday some haystacks went out over the bar. It is feared that there has been dreadful loss of property, occasioned by the flood. ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Sat 3 Dec 1870, Page 4
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