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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
30 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2
A correspondent to the Riverine Herald, writing from the lower Murray on the [?]5th May, states that the river above Meni[?]die is reported to be fifty miles in width. As the homesteads, watersheds,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is our disagreeable duty to chronicle the occurrence of another disastrous flood, in the valley of the Hunter, and from present appearances there is every prospect that it will be greater than any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LENGTHY and distressing accounts, from every part of the interior detailing the fearful misery, and destruction occasioned by the late devastating floods, are being received in Sydney daily. The loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE heavy rains which so recently threatened our district with another flood, appear to have been attended with more disastrous results in other parts of the colony, and the present year is destined to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AFTER a short reign of sunshine, we are again visited with most inclement and undesirable weather. On Friday last it commenced to rain slowly, which continued at intervals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT was our painful duty in February, 1863, to record one of the most terrible inundations in the Clarence River with which any portion of this colony has ever been visited. So lamentable was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WEST MAITLAND.—Wednesday morning.—The river is eighteen feet above high water mark. A large portion of Louth Park is flooded. There were several laud slips in High-street on the river bank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUGUST 12TH.—It is my painful task to describe a most calamitous visitation. The weather, which had been remarkably fine up to this day week, suddenly changed on the 6th, when it commenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In last Monday's Herald, appeared a most distressing account of the late fearfully disastrous floods on the Macleay River, and as I do not doubt but that another portion of your columns will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Friday night a most severe and disastrous storm visited Newcastle and the coast, causing the loss of the steam-tug Lowestoft, the brig Gertrude, and the schooner Jane, between Sydney and Newcastle,…
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