We ought to be accustomed by this time to rapid and complete changes of weather in this country, but nevertheless such a change as has taken place within the last week comes as an ...
Article : 1,791 wordsNo doubt from the telegrams which have reached you, your readers have been made acquainted with the outlines of the most destructive and fearfully devastating flood that has ever swept through the ...
Article : 1,612 wordsSir—Seeing that the ex-Governmett of Mr. Parkes had resolved to burke a proposition that I submitted to the Secretary of Works (Mr. Sutherland) to bring the railway train from Newcastle to Sydney, by ...
Article : 483 wordsUp to the present the intelligence of the effects of the flood in the upper parts of the district are very meagre. At Gresford we learn the flood waters were above six feet higher than ...
Article : 321 wordsWhen we ceased writing on Monday forenoon, the flood in the Hunter, then impending, had not by any means reached its greatest height. Long-continued heavy rains had ...
Article : 4,311 wordsA special general meeting of the Australian Mutual Provident Society was held in the Chamber of Commerce, on Thursday afternoon. The object of the meeting, as set forth in the ...
Article : 1,198 wordsOn Tuesday, Mr. James Ward, of Eulah Creek, kindly sent us a baker's dozen of slipstone peaches, without exception the finest we have seen as yet this season. Their aggregate weight was 5 lb. 12½ ozs., ...
Article : 318 wordsSINGLETON PUBLIC SCHOOL.—Miss Janet Barnett has been appointed to take charge of the Infant's department of the Singleton Public School. This lady appears to have attained a high standard of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 319 wordsThe weather for the last fortnight has been wet, and the roads have been very bad for travelling. Since the rain, the country looks well, and promises well for winter feed. The sky is very cloudy to-day, ...
Article : 412 wordsA boat accident happened on Saturday afternoon at Stockton, which, but for the courageous conduct of two persons, would have been attended with the loss of several lives. The boat, owned by Sydney ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 461 wordsNo doubt the mournful inteligence of the sad death by drowning of the Honorable William Munnings Arnold will have reached you before this letter comes to hand. The honorable gentleman, with ...
Article : 377 wordsThe flood waters have subsided here very fast. The water is now drained off the principal parts of the cultivation lands, but has revealed a fearful amount of destruction to buildings, ...
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), Sat 6 Mar 1875, Page 6
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