TUESDAY, 2 P.M.—Now that the water has fallann some twenty-two feet [?] we are [?] to form some idea of things; and, compating the condition of the lowlands with what we already know of the town, can come to no other ...
Article : 501 wordsA correspondent writes:—Only a slight rise took place in the river up to middey on Wednesday, after which the [?] more rapidly; but up to 1 o'clock on the afternoon of that day horsemen could ford the current in ...
Article : 1,662 wordsWe give in a fragmentary form some of the notes taken by our reporters:- On Monday morning at the north end of the town the [?] Bridge was free from water, and about ...
Article : 2,267 wordsWE have been visited with the highest flood ever known in the Hawkesbury. Searcely a family in the neighbourhood of Wilberforce but have had to remove from their houses; they have lost their cows, many of their pigs, horses, ...
Article : 256 wordsJune 24.—We have had tremendous weather, but, as far as Pitt Water is concerned, no damage has been done, with the [?] to one of our [?] curiosities, St. Michaal's Arcb. It has at length yielded to the too mighty elements ...
Article : 375 wordsJune [?]—A correspondent sends the following:—No doubt you will have received some crude reports relative to the frightful floods by which we have been visited both here and in Windsor; but I will endeavour (as far as yet ...
Article : 929 wordsFrom Adelaide we have dates to the 18th instant. It is understood that the Government still intend to meet [?] on the 5th July, and that immediately on the [?] of the Legislatur the Treasurer will lay his ...
Article : 524 wordsJune 25.—It is my painful duty to record a flood of a [?] disastrous character, in consequence of the late heavy [?]—a flood greater than any we have had within the memory of the oldest inhabitant—a flood that has ...
Article : 656 wordsWe have Hobart Town dates to the 20th, and Launceston to the 21st instant In the Mil cury of the 20th we find the following:- "A dead specimen of the rare class of indigenous animals ...
Article : 256 wordsVia Melbourne, we have dates from Hokitika to the 15th June. Trade at Christchurch is report as somewhat stagnant. The steamer Bruce was stranded on the North Spit on ...
Article : 456 wordsOUR files from Melbourne are to the 24th instant. A rather singular notice was given in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday evening by Mr. Watkins, to the [?] that on Tuesday next he should call the attention of ...
Article : 1,286 wordsA FLOOD such as no man recollects has visited our Plains, which now present to the eye a vast sheet of water, dotted here and there with patches of verdure, houses more or less submerged or surrounded wiih water, and the tops of a ...
Article : 1,197 wordsHitherto it has been the custom of our residents in all discussions about floods to refer to the flood of August, 1857, as a standard—as a sort of maximum not likely to be exceeded. The rule has hold good during the many ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 27 Jun 1867, Page 2
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