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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1867

27 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2

Great Flood on the Hunter River. Loss of Seventeen Lives

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1867 · page 2

BY a telegram received from Newcastle, on Friday night, we leam that there has been a very seve[?]e hurricane along the coast. The Helen M'Grogor and Agnes Irving, steamers,…

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Disastrous Flood at Burran-dong. Doss of Eight Lives. (From the Bathurst Times)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 9 July 1867 · page 4

Mr. W. H. SUTTOR has handed us the following letter, written by his son, Mr. F. B. Suttor, from Burrandong, dated 23rd June. The tale it tells adds another appalling, incident in the many gloomy…

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Disastrous Flood at Burrandong. Loss of Eight Lives. (From the Bathurst Times)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 9 July 1867 · page 4

Mr. W. H. SUTTOR has handed us the following letter, written by his son, Mr. F. B. Suttor, from Burrandong, dated 23rd June. The tale it tells adds another appalling incident in the many gloomy…

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Flood Relief Meeting

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 July 1867 · page 2

A MEETING convened by the MAYOR, on a requisition was held at the Court House, Grafton, on Friday evening last, for the purpose and in order to enlist the [?]ublic sympathy in aid of the sufferers by the late…

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Flood Relief Meeting

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 July 1867 · page 2

A METING convened by the MAYOR, on a requisition as held at the Court House, Grafton, on Friday vening last, for the purpose and in order to enlist the ublic sympathy in aid of the sufferers by the late…

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Heavy Gale. Loss of Two Pilot Boats at the Heads. Drowning of Pilots Robinson and Reeder and Five of the Crew. Drowning of Robert Green, of the Shipping Butcher's Boat. Loss of the Schooner Otago, at Newcastle. Expected Floods to the South (From the Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 6 August 1867 · page 4

SCARCELY have the effects of the late disastrous floods softened down in the public mind, [?] it is our painful duty to record a terrible disaster on the return of [?]sterous weather. On Sunday, about nine a.m.,…

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H E a V Y G a L E. Loss of Two Pilot Boats at the Heads. Drowning of Rilots Robinson and Reeder and Five of the Crew. Drowning of Robert Green, of the Shipping Butcher's Boat. Loss of the Schooner Otago, at Newcastle, Expected Floods to the South (from thet Herald,)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 6 August 1867 · page 4

SCARCELY have the effects of the late disastrous floods softened down in the public mind, ere it is our painful duty to record a terrible disaster on the return of boisterous weather. On Sunday, about nine a.m…

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