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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
19 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
WE have used the word " Deluge" advisedly, simply because the word flood will not convey to the reader's mind the real event that has just happened; the only wonder is that there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is our sad and melancholy task to have to record this week the most disastrous Hood, accompanied by loss of life and destruction of property, which has ever visited the Clarence River district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting of the citizens of Grafton was hold at the School of Arts, without notice, convened at the suggestion of some of the most influential residents of the district, to take into consideration the distress…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[IN consequence of the great demand for copies of Saturday's issue we reprint the account of the late flood, with such particulars as have since come to hand. The Agnes Irving leaves Grafton for Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Will you allow us to contradict certain [?] hoods new in circulation. 1st. We have never refused to supply food to any hungry man, woman, or child, in our lives; but we…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From all quarters we hear of the damages done by the recent gale of wind, heavy rains, and floods. The trace left behind by the flood was at once interesting and alarming: in almost every tree could be found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—The month of July, 1876, is, and will be, memorable in the annals of history for the highest and most disastrous flood that over took place in the Clarence River, New South Wales, during the recollection and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE are glad to learn that the reported loss amongst Mr. Chauvel's pure bred stock turns out to be incorrect. We are informed that on Friday, at midnight, it commene[?]d raining very heavily, in perfect torrents; in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE little thought when we penned the paragraph referring to the weather, which appeared in our last issue, that the indications of a fall of rain would be attended with such a terrific and almost unparalleled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT with sincere regret that we learn the extent of injury indicted on our fellow colonists on the Clarence River, by the flood of the 16th instant. Our telegram was delayed six days, and the statement that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In your Harwood Island correspondent's report of the late flood a few inaccuracies occur, which I hope you will allow me to set right. In the first place your correspondent says that four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following incident of the late flood at Warwick is told by the Argus:—It was [?] was that a sick Chairman had been left in the house in the Chinese garden at the foot of Victoria-street, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—It was with feelings of indignation, not unmingled with contempt, that I noticed in your issue of August 5th the weak endeavour on the part of a resident of Harwood Island to bring discredit on your…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The contents of the annexed copy of a letter addressed by me, with sanction of most of the fanmers and planters in my neighbourhood, to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, on the subject of thr recent flood,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN 1875 the British Isles were visited by a series of disastrous floods. The same statement may be made, with certain limitations, of every year for a considerable period. There is therefore in one sense nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHICAGO, July 6.—Further particulars have been received of the storm near. Dubuque, Iowa, on the night of the 4th. The little hamlet of Rockdale, three miles south-west of that city, was swept away as with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As was anticipated, the gale which set in on Sunday night, and which continued with unabated fury during the whole of yesterday, has proved very destruetive to property. lt came up so unexpectedly, and so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is seldom that the Press has had to chronicle [?] more disastrous gale than that which raged from 9.30 on Sunday night until late on the evening of Monday. Indeed, it is without a parallel in the anuals of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Friday, 22nd September, the Tumut River came down in a higher flood than has been seen here for over twenty years. Rain fell on Thursday with steady persistency, a strong wind set in after…
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