The above narrative presents the aspect of affairs on Thursday afternoon. Below we give the developments since that time. The accounts are written by several pens, and much of the information has ...
Article : 5,109 wordsWo received yesterday from the Mayor of Newcastle the following telegram:—"I have called a public meeting on Tuesday evening here (Newcastle) for Hunter River flood relief." ...
Article : 36 wordsThere can be very little conception of the damage done around the city by recent floods. Water still remains in many places, though in others there is very little to be seen and nothing but ...
Article : 300 wordsWe suppose many of our Maitland readers have passed a night in that historic spot known as the Horseshoe Bend in flood time and in dry time, but we are authorised to bet millions that the ...
Article : 1,552 wordsWe have just experienced a most disastrous flood, unprecedented in this district since its settlement by white men—about 70 years ago—,the flood having reached a height of 48 feet 3 inches, being ...
Article : 585 wordsThe member for West Maitland, Mr. John Gillies, was in Sydney, as has been stated above, till Saturday evening. He was, however, kept fully acquainted with the sad state of affairs in ...
Article : 209 wordsThe greatest floods here ever known occurred on Wednesday night. Half the town was submerged; the water rose rapidly. It was impossible to save property. Families were rescued by wading ...
Article : 165 wordsThe hot, sultry weather of the past few weeks has, at last, given place to heavy and continuous rainstorms, and this morning (Thursday) the town is half submerged. The change took place about ...
Article : 1,020 wordsThere has been terrible destruction of property by floods. Macdonald River is very high; the surrounding farms are under water; great destruction of crops and stock. The water is slowly ...
Article : 215 wordsThe team of cavalry men, and the Sydney members of the Australian cricket eleven, left by the mail steamer Orizaba, for England, on Saturday. Mr. McFarlane, M.P., has published at Maclean ...
Article : 80 wordsBy the courtesy of the Prime Minister, Sir George Dibbs, we are enabled to print the following batch of cable messages which have appealed in the Sydney papers and were transmitted to him in ...
Article : 1,015 wordsTremendous fires have occurred in the Mallee country; between 200 and 300 miles square of country have been swept. Fires are still burning, in spite of all efforts to check them. Water is ...
Article : 37 wordsE. S. Lucas and Co., warehousemen, Rockhampton, filed a petition in bankruptcy; liabilities, £40,000. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe village of Lochinvar, as most people know, is too high for any flood to reach, it. It might safely be called Noah's Ark, the place of safety. At the same time all the farms on the river are under ...
Article : 257 wordsA heavy gale throughout the North Island on Friday and Saturday; severe floods in Wellington and suburbs, doing considerable damage. ...
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