The News As It Happened – An historic event in Sydney, NSW, when in November 1864 the prisoners attempted to break out of Darlinghurst Goal.

The year was 1867, the year that the greatest floods of record hit New South Wales. From April reports started to filter in of devastating floods throughout the state. The worst were to occur in June 1867 in the Hunter (Maitland and Newcastle), the Hawkesbury (Penrith, Windsor, Richmond, North Richmond, St Marys, Riverstone, Pitt Town, Cattai, and Sackville), the Blue Mountains (Bathurst), and in the Mudgee Region (Burrandong), which accompanied great loss of property and life. Following are some of the reports given at the time, including first-hand accounts of their bravery and loss.

A letter penned by William Thomas Stocker of Van Dieman’s Land, giving an account of Swan River, Port Augusta, and King George’s Sound in Western Australia.

An account of a Day’s Ramble among the Spurs of the Dandeong 1868 – An historic illustration of the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria from 1873

The second of two letters published in ‘The Australian’ in 1827, in response to the impressions given by a previous writer of five letters, published in the same newspaper, entitled “A Trip to the Hunter’s River”.

The first of five letters published in The Australian (Sydney, NSW) between 31 January 1827 and 14 February 1827. The author of these letters takes you on a contemporary tour of the Hunter’s River as he gives you an account of his trip in 1826/27.

Published in early 1880 in the Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser the author takes the reader on a descriptive trip down the Hawkesbury river of New South Wales.

An 1864 article about the idyllic Port Macquarie in New South Wales.

Part one of an eight part series published in the Sydney Morning Herald between 12 May 1864 and 15 July 1864. In this series the authors take the readers on a journey through the streets of Sydney “beyond the line of handsomely built houses, and off the well kept streets, to show them the nooks and crannies into which they themselves have never penetrated, to make them acquainted with the abodes of poverty, of misfortune, or of crime.”