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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
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Heavy recent rains have swelled the streams tran the Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Derby Hills, and caused serious floods in several parts or the country[?] The Irwell overflowed its banks, and ran through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy recent rains have swelled the streams from the Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Derby Hills, and caused serious floods in several parts of the country. The Irwell overflowed its banks, and ran through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COILA, TUROSS RIVER.—It has never fallen to my lot to record more melancholy accidents, nor attended with more harrowing details, than those I am about to relate. It commenced raining heavily here on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COILA, TUROSS RIVER. — It has never fallen to my lot to record more melancholy accidents, nor attended with more harrowing details, than those I am about to relate. It commenced raining heavily here on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GEORGE BELFOUR chief officer of the schooner Cyclone, who, with his shipmates, arrived in Newcastle on Sunday, having walked from Nelson's Bay, says:—"The schooner Cyclone, Mr. Duncan,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GEORGE BELFOUR, chief officer of the schooner Cyclone, who, with his shipmates, arrived in Newcastle on Sunday, having walked from Nelson's Bay, says:—"The schooner Cyclone, Mr. Duncan,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FRIDAY MORNING.—Since midnightthe waters have been subsiding, after a flood as high, within a foot, of the flood of 1857. The river has not yet [?] to its passable calibre, but there has been communication…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE river, which at noon on Thursday, stood about fifteen foot, began rapidly to rise about four o'clock, and rose about three to four feet per hour for several hours,—but as the rise increased the water spread…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I have to report that we are once more visited by a most disastrous flood. It has been a continuous rain here since Monday morning up to eleven o'clock last night, and the height of the water now exceeds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The heavy rains of the first four days and nights of this week have placed us almost under water agnin. Thursdny morning.—The river about the same, but the back-water rose. The lower port of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As we mentioned in our last issue, the Hunter began to fall on Friday afternoon. Up to Friday the settlers at Lochend and Louth Park were most industrious in raising embankments at low places to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FRIDAY MORNING.—Since midnight the waters have been subsiding, after a flood as high, within a foot, of the flood of 1857. The river has not yet receded to its passable calibre, but there has been communication…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE River, which at noon on Thursday, stood about fifteen feet, began rapidly to rise about four o'clock, and rose about three to four feet per hour for scvoral hours,—but as the rise increased the water spread…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I have to report that we are once more visited by a most disastrous flood. It lins been a continuous rain bore since Monday morning up to eleven o'clock Inst night, mid the height of the water now exceeds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The heavy rains of the first four days and nights of this week have placed us almost under water again Thursday morning.—The river about the same, but the back-water rose. The lower part of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As We mentioned in our last issue, the Hunter began to fall on Friday afternoon. Up to Friday the settlers at Lochend and Louth Park were most industrious in raking embankments at low places to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TUESDAY, APRIL 30TH.—I stated in closing my letter of last week, that the weather which gave only the day before every indication of keeping favourable, had taken a sudden change, it having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In a district like the Clarence where land is so continually being taken up, and a large area brought every year under cultivation, one drawback seems constantly to retard it, viz., floods, and with each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In a district like the Clarence where land is so continually being taken up, and a large area brought every year under cultivation, one drawback seems constantly to retard it, viz., floods, and with each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BY a telegram received from Newcastle, on Friday night, we learn that there has been a very severe hurricane along the coast. The Helen M'Gregor and Agnes Irving, steamers,…
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