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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1861

2 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Richmond River. [From Our Correspondent.] Terrible Floods

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1861 · page 2

[?] a month has elapsed since the last flood at the North Arm, and we are again visited with another, to complete the destruction that the last had left…

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The Floods on the Hunter. (From the Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 6 August 1861 · page 4

MORPETH, July 26.—It commenced raining here on Tuesday afternoon, and continued to pour down incessantly until about two o'clock to-day, when the wind…

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