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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
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ROCKHAMPTON, MONDAY NIGHT.— Floods are still rising on the Fitzrey River, and the waters have reabed within a short distance of the highost flood marks. On Monday, at midnight, a disastrous flood suddently swept…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From the reports by the steamers we learn that the waters on the coast were discoloured for miles out to sen, showing unmistakeable signs of the rivers to the south being in flood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE our last issue,, it has continued to ram almost without intercession, and at times it has been so heavy that the surface water lying ahout Grafton, has given the town the appearance of being flooded, though we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By telegram, we learn that the barque Rangoon, was totally wrecked near Kiama, during the late severe hurricane on the coast. The crew were all saved. The keth [?] has also been wrecked at Newcastle; the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM last Tuesday's Mercury, we learn that the embankment at the Falls has been very effective, and appears to be more stable than any. The water was deep opposite the northumberland Hotel, over the caves of the roofs of the houses in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THURSDAY.—There have been very heavy rains since Saturday morning. Twenty-four inches fell in four and a half days. The river is flooded, and is now six feet above high water springs. Not much damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SATURDAY, MARCH 12TH.—We have been visited by fearful flood. The lower part of the town has been completely submerged. From Burns' stores to Hardcastle's new building, in Mary-street, all the houses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SATURDAY.—There is now the greatest, flood at Maryborough ever known. The water is four feet above the highest willer mark of 1864. A number of farmers and others enclosed in a pocket of the river had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As many of the residents of this district were from the Hunter, and some few still retain an interest in that part, in addition to the news of the second flood in the Hunter, which will found in another part of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BY telegram, we learn that the Storm Bird, schooner, 96 tons, Captain FEATHERSTONE, which left Melbourne on the 12th instant, for Warrnambool, to load for Sydney, and from thence on to the Clarence River, to load with maize, for Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FRIDAY, 18TH MARCH.—The Hawkesbury at Windsor has risen twenty feet, and is still rising fast, backing up South Creek and the lowlands, which are all inundated. There is every prospect of a heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →KIAMA, FRIDAY—Information has reached here of an alarming flood at Shoalhaven, which is four feet higher than the big flood of 1860. The Telegraph and Post Office, the steamers' store, and several other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE append a brief summary of the damage done by the late disastrous, floods, taken from the Herald and Empire, and telegrams received and published by the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE continue our summitry of the extent and devastation occasioned by the late floods throughout the colony, the particulars of which in the Northern District will bE found in another part of to-day's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WINDSOR, THURSDAY, 2 P.M.—We have had eighteen hours' constant rain. The river is twelve feet above high-water level, and rising rapidly. There is every appearance of another flood. 7 P.M.—It rained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Mercury records with minuteness the unwelcome Intelligence of another flood in the Hunter River, being the fourth visitation of the kind within the last ten wooks. The lower portions of the Horses[?] Bond woro totally submorgod,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The mail, due from Cannonbar, only arrived on Thursday. The creeks between here and Warren imperatively require re-bridging. It is now raining. The weather is cold and breezy. No Bourke news since the flood. Six mails are, now overdue…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE country all round on Thursday was in a fearful atate from the recont great floods. The rivers and crooks are up; the roads are Impassable, and over forty teams are now camped at the foot of the Tanglowangle Mountain, as they cannot get along. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Mercury of Thursday says:—The sea of backwater visible after a flood in the direction of West Maitland, from the front of the East Maitland Court House, is gradually lessoning in its dimensions, revealing the submerged farm lands…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PENRITH, TUESDAY, 4 P.M.—The Nepean is again rising fast; it rained all night and continued showery. The volunteers, consequent upon the inelement weather, could not proceed to the general review, but…
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