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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
19 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
A FLOOD in the Hustings at Rolland's Plains has caused heavy losses in stock, Mr. Waters lost eighteen head of cattle. Dr. Gamack estimates his loss at £500, but it was chiefly in horses. Mr. Wallace…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Dalby Herald of the 3rd instant states that it was to be expected that a flood in the Condamine would take place, and telegraphic messages arrived from Warwick on Monday, to the police Magistrate and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SATURDAY, 6·57 p.m.—It has been raining here for two day. The Peel and Cockburn are bank high. Sunday, 10·30 p.m.—Raining; river three-quarters bank high. Tuesday.—There has been an incessant rain since Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although the interruption in the running of the railway trains renders it impossible to get as much as usual of information from up the district, and from beyond the Liverpool Range, yet what we have heard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JANUARY 29TH.—All traffic on the line between Newcastle and West Maitland having been stopped on the Great Western Railway, from Monday to Thursday, gave rise to many rumours as to the d[?]ge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Since my last communication we bad a most disastrous flood on this river, attended with [?]s of human life and sheep in flocks. Pigs, goats, fowls, and stores, were seen floating on the raging current…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TALRRAGAR.—A great quantity of rain must have failen at the head of the Talbragar, for on Monday that river reached a greater height than ever before known. The water came down [?]erally in mountains,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE had hopes (says the Maitland Mercury) that the great flood with which we have been visited would, at least have passed over without the loss of human life having to be deplored, but such, we regret to say,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WEST MAITLAND, FRIDAY.—The river has gone down to eighteen feet six inches, and the back water is lowering. It is estimated that £1000 of damage has been done to the town alone. As it goes it leaves…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WHILE London was enjoying comparatively calm and fine weather after the crushing fogs, a violent gale broke over tho midland and northern parts of England. At Sheffield the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →As the afternoon of Saturday, the 7th instant, advanced, heavy squalls came from the south-west, with fast driving showers, and at times lt appeared as if a heavy fall of rain was to set in. The wind…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE heaviest flood seen in Bacchus Marsh for twelve years happened on Thursday night, between six and twelve, and unfortunately one life has been lost, that of an infant, aged two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DAMAGING floods have occurred at Kaiapoi; a great quantity of farm produce has been destroyed. A great storm has carried away miles of telegraph line between the North and Middle Islands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following telegrams are published in the CANTERBURY TIMES, of 11th April— "Greymouth, April 11th.—There was a fearful flood here on Sunday night and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DURING the riging of the great thunderstorm on May 25th, numbers of people in the Hackney Marshes and the neighbourhood took refuge at the White House, and the White Hart, Temple Mills. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE shocking catastrophe, of which our columns contain the history this morning, is by no means the worst of its kind which modern times have witnessed. The similar disaster at Sheffield, England, in 1864,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE wind during the past two days has been blowing over the city with hurricane force. On Sundny the velocity of the wind reached a gust of eighty-eight miles an hour, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SEPTEMBER 9TH.—This district was on Sunday and Monday last visited with one of those periodical gales which year after year cause so much damage and incovenience…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT an early hour on October 21st, England was visited by a gale which speedily rose to a violent storm, and has occasioned many serious casualties both in London and the provinces…
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