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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1870

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

Flood Relief Meeting

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 June 1870 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting of the residents of Grafton, convened by the MAYOR (Mr. T. G. HEWITT), on a requisition presented to him, was held in the hall of the School of Arts, Grafton, on Friday evening last, the…

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Flood Relief.—the Ladies' Committee

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 June 1870 · page 2

We understand that the Ladies' Committee forwarded by thc C. and N. E.S. N. Company's steamer, Helen M'Gregor, on Saturday last, a huge case of wearing apparel, for distribution amongst the sufferers by the…

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Flood in the Clarence River

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 22 November 1870 · page 2

Tu[?]s district has, during the past week,been subject to one of those periodical inundations for which the Clarence—like all other rivers-has become proverbial. The late heavy rains, unhappily were not confined to…

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Great Flood in Tue Little River. [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1870 · page 2

As we mentioned in our last issue, the Clarence district had again been in flood, and a resident of the Little River, informs us that the southern waters rose much higher during the lateo rains, than they were…

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Floods in the Interior. (From Tuesday's Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1870 · page 3

The weather at the close of the year seems likely to be a repetition of that experienced at the opening of 1870—rain everywhere, and disasters floods on the banks of all the rivers. Our telegramsz from the north, which will be found in another part of…

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