The accounts which reached Sydney on Friday night and Saturday morning, from the flooded districts, were so contradictory an yet alarming, that in order to place our readers in ...
Article : 600 wordsThrough a young man, who rode over on horseback rom Richmond to Pourith, we learn that great havoo had been caused on Richmond Bottoms, the flat between Richmond town and the river, and that a ...
Article : 677 wordsBoth the raliway and the telegraph between Riverstone and Windsor have been intorcepted by the flood, so that the only communication since Friday has been by boats. From Mr. J. H. Thomas, engineer of existing ...
Article : 440 wordsSince Thursday there has been no communication by railway with Windsor and Richmond. On Friday, the Minister for Works, and Mr. Owen, railway managers went as far as Riverstone, and took off a number of ...
Article : 592 wordsThe scene presented st. Penrith on Friday and Saturday last was one that has never been equalled in the history of the colony. For three or four miles before the train arrived at the terminus, there were ...
Article : 1,894 wordsHappily the floods on the Southern line have not been attended with any great amount of disaster. On Saturday, after passing the Parramatta Junction, on the Great Southern Railway, towards Liverpool, the ...
Article : 587 wordsAbout 10 o'clock on Friday morning nearly the whole of the new work of the Bulli jetty, excepting one panel or bay, was washed away. The sea was terrific, but the jetty bore well the strain of the furious gusts ...
Article : 155 wordsThe terrible effects of the floods in the vicinity of Maitland are yet unknown. The only news received up to the present is by the steamer Agnes Irving, which arrived, yesterday evening from Newcastle, with the ...
Article : 559 wordsSATURDAY.—Since I wrote you our creek fell about five feet, but is again nearly as high as on Thursday. The now bridge still stands, but the embankment at each and is partially carried away. All our low lands are ...
Article : 224 wordsAt Penrith it was reported that the Denison Bridge, near Bathurst, had been carried away bodily one mile down the river. This bridge consisted of three 90 feet spans, with two 65 feat side ...
Article : 174 wordsA gentleman, who was an eye-witness of most of the circumstances related below, has requested us to give them publicity in the hope that the brave and meritorious conduct of the humble individual, whose name ...
Article : 251 wordsTelegraphic communication has been suspended since 10 a.m. on Friday between Blacktown and Windsor, the flood having done considerable damage to the telegraph. The cross country telegraph to the north, ...
Article : 130 wordsOn Saturday afternoon the Light-ship inside the Heads displayed a signal of distress, which was seenfrom the hill at Watson's Bay. The news created considerable alarm, and was soon communicated to the ...
Article : 189 wordsWe have papers from Brisbane to the 18th June, and from Rockhampton to the same date. The Brisbane papers are mostly occupied with matter connected with the forthcoming elections. We make the ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Mon 24 Jun 1867, Page 5
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