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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1866

5 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Floods on the Hunter, Tamworth and the Hawkesbury

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1866 · page 3

There have been heavy floods on the Hunter, Tamworth, and Windsor; and an immense quantity of farm produce has been completely destroyed. The floods are now subsiding…

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The Late Severe Gale on the Coast

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1866 · page 4

BY the politeness of Captain JOHEPK CREER, of the Grafton, steamer, we are in receipt of on Extraordinary to the Newcastle Chronicle, containing full particulars of the late wrecks at Newcastle, and the…

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The Late Severe Gale on the Coast. by the politeness of Captain Joseph Creer, of the Grafton, steamer, we are in receipt of an Extraordinary to the Newcastle Chronicle, containing full particulars of the late wreeks at Newcastle, and the adjacent part of the coast, from which and the Sydney Morning Herald, we reprint the following lamentable disasters with great loss of life:— Wreck of the A. S. N. Company's Steamer Cawarra. One Man Saved. Statement of the Survivor (From Extraordinary to the Newcastle Chronicle.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1866 · page 4

THURSDAY, the 12th of July, 1866, will be a day long to be sorrowfully remembered by the inhabitants of Newcastle. It will be marked in the Calender as the day on which one of the most dreadful wrecks…

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The Flood at Melbourne

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 October 1866 · page 2

The Melbourne Argus of the 8th instant, gives a vivid description of the late flood there:— The river rose to its highest point at about nine a.m. on Saturday morning, when Mr. Fitzgibbon; the…

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The Flood at Melbourne

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 October 1866 · page 2

The Melbourne Argus of the 8th instant, gives a vivid description of the late flood there— The river rose to its highest point at about nine a.m. on Saturday morning, when Mr. Fitzgibbon; the…

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