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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1878

5 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Terrific Storm in Brisbane. Brisbane

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1878 · page 3

SHORTLY after four o'clock this afternoon a terrific hailstorm, which lasted for nearly an hour, blew over this city. The hailstones were a large as hen's eggs, and came down with such violence as to smush all…

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Terrific Storm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1878 · page 2

ONE of the most dreadful stol ms that has ever visited the district broke over Grafton about 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday. The rain came down in torrents for about an hour, while the wind blew a perfect gale,…

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Cyclone and Great Loss of Life

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 8 June 1878 · page 5

THE New Zealand papers contain further particulars of the hurricane at Paumotos, Lagoon Islands. Under date the 13th instant, it is reported that the islands (which are only ten to twenty feet high) were in the…

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Storms on the Southern Coast. Nine Race[?]ses Drowned

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1878 · page 2

IT appears that the furious gales which during the last few days have been sweeping along the coast, reports the Melbourne Herald, indicated their approach at Warrnambool by violent gusts at midnight on…

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Legend of a Deluge

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 7

MR. R. BROUCH SMITH'S recently published work on the Aborigines of Australia furnishes the following legend of a deluge:— 'A long time ago, when father belonging to you and…

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