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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
30 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
AT nine o'clock this morning, the river had risen bank high, and the water still rising at the rate of twelve inches an hour. The rain continues. 6.30 p.m.âThe water has broken over the river's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following is a copy of a letter received in Maitland yesterday, from Mr. Otto Baldwin:â "Derriwnrindi, February, 13th, 1864.âSaturday. "We are in a deplorable condition here; we had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Wednesday, as early as nine a.m. the Page had commenced to rise—at eleven a.m., very rapidly so that it was bank high. Some fears were at this time apprehended for the safety of the houses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I hasten to inform you of one of the most disastrous floods that has taken place in this district since its first foundation, but I am happy to inform you that we have lost no lives; and at present I am…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN last Saturday's issue we chronicled the advent and progress of the disasterous visitation. On the morning of that dry the river at Maitland was within eighteen inches of being as high as during…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE learn, by letters from several gentlemen, that the plains situated near the junction of the abovenamed rivers were almost overwhelmed with a flood simultaneously with that which deluged the country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EFFECTS OF THE FLOOD IN THE HUNTER RIVER DISTRICT.—Tuesday's Mercury says:—Now that the flood at Maitland has nearly subsided, its effects upon the banks are seen to be very disasterous in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]IN, rain, nothing but rain rendering the noble and useful Clarence into a most formidable sheet of water âoverflowing its boundaries, and converting immense areas of land into large lagoons,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have Brisbane papers to Saturday, the 26th u[?] time, from which we give the following brief notice of the [?]svastating floods the have provailed through out that colony…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Calmly in the moonlight the peaceful river lay, Its mirror-bosom casting back each star's refulgent ray, A settler from his cottage door, look'd forth in calm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Brisbane Courier of the 30th gives the following particulars of the damages done the various cotton plantations in Queensland by the floods:— On the Frenie Lawn Cotton Plantation,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Queensland (s.), from the northern ports, arrived at Brisbane on Wednesday. She reports heavy floods in the Rockhampton and Wide Bay districts and that the country for about seventy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I deem it necessary for the credit of the Richmond River, to contradict some of the statements made by "Your Correspondent" of this place, and which appeared in your last issue. I am…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SATURDAY, 2nd April.—I have to inform you of the highest and most injurious flood that has occurred for many years in this district. On the morning of Monday last there was indications of approaching…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I deem it necessary for the credit of the veracity of your "Richmond River Correspondent," in reply, to "TRUTH'S" LETTER, to remark that the statements made by 'Your Correspondent' "so far as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I hope you will allow me space for a few more remarks on the above subject. I am surprised to think a resident of the Richmond River would write in such a manner as "North Arm," or as I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many houses in the vicinity of Sydney and also in the town had suffered severely from the storm. At Watson's Bay the fences on the high ground have been almost demolished. At Rushcutter's Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The floods here are most disasterous. All the diggings are flooded. The damage done to claims at Araluen is very great. Two lives have been lost there, and there have been several narrow escapes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday morning last, rain commenced falling and continued without intermission until last night (Sunday), On Saturday, the Malwarree Ponds and the Wollondilly rose rapidly, and in the evening…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is my melancholy duty to relate that the highest and most diastrous flood which had been known on the Hawkesbury for many years has just taken place, and whilst I write the waters, are, if…
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