A correspondent of the Macleay Horald, from which these particularS are abridged, writing on the 22nd November states:— I am truly sorry to have to inform you than we have been visited with a very disastrous flood, which has caused ...
Article : 295 wordsOur district has been visited with one of the, most destructive floods that can be remembered by the oldest residence on the liver. From the 10th to 20th, the rain was almost continuous, accompanied with a strong gale of wind blowing ...
Article : 461 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 eyes on every side, from one end of the river to the ...
Article : 694 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 ...
Article : 1,197 wordsThe weather appears to have taken up at last. After ringing monotonous changes on "cloudy and wet," we have had about nine days continuous fine weather but considering that this is the middle of summer, the nights are chilly. Shearins is ...
Article : 433 wordsThe tody of the unfortunate person who was drowned in the Bell Kiver, at Larras Lake, on the 12th, was recovered by the police during the early port of the present week, and about a mile below the place where he entered the river. I have not ...
Article : 316 wordsA correspondent writing from Port Macquarie, states:— The Hastings has experienced a severe Hood. On Saturday some haystacks went out over the bar. It is feared that there has been dreadful loss of property, occasioned by the flood. ...
Article : 195 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 : 540 wordsSERIOUS ACCIDENT.—Last Wednesday morning as the mail had just started, one of the horses become restive just as the coach was about to enter a deep rut. The couchman put his foot on the brake to case the coach, but somehow he lost his ...
Article : 310 wordsSIR,—The carriers of this colony, as a rule, are very honest; but there are some who broach cases, bags; and casis, sometimes spoiling the contents of the latter with muddy water to replace the bulk. I have known Ma rian's ...
Article : 558 words"Woodside Manning River, 20th November. 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-east, and descended for fifty hours ...
Article : 563 wordsThe Nautilus left for the lower part of the river on Sunday, at 6 a.m., the water at the time fast lowering at Kempsey. On roaching Darkwater it was found that it had only fallon obout an inch, while at Summer Island it was still ri-ing— ...
Article : 1,250 wordsThe flood was six inches or eight inches loss at Rolland's Plains than in 1864, but was most disastrous. There were a few horses drowned at Wallaby Hill, and a cow at Mr. Naylor's, at Ballangary. Mr. Woodlands lost some twelve ...
Article : 78 wordsOn the Hastings we learn that the flood was six inches higher at Rawden Island, than in 1861. The corn on anything approaching low land has been swept away. Sugar-cane apparently is not injured. Mr. Morrison was going to commence ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 3 Dec 1870, Page 7
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