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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
9 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
Regarding the temporary railway bridge, it was predicted that, should a flood occur in the river, the distances between the supports were not sufficiently far apart to allow the drift wood and heavy timber…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pisrii, ATuith IG-ilio Avholo countiy beloAV S/egedui und lonusYiu is stioAvn AVith ciu.tvuiis ot people All tlio Alliages anel boioughs hin o liospitiibly optuptl tlitti houses and stoi es to tlio lofugees KailYYiiy tiains yesttiday took to ItinisAin ">000 tugitnos, AYIUIO JOO pooi>loAvoiit by steiunti to &/tntts Engluons und soldtcis mo busy AY Uli then ltbof pontoons und boats, thtio bang still "nat nttd ot than Tim l^mpcioi bus conti lbulcd ii fut tliei sum of 10,000 lloiins Sientes is UOYY the only piuco ni dangei Hie Empcioi AY ill go to fe/igahn on Sunday e A oiling An olheial statement shoyys that of.17,000 houses in S/cgidui all except JOGI haye been elestioyed Alost ot tho habitations de stioyed YYCIC ot the IOYYCI classes of the popula…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SINCE our last issue we have been visited by one of the most severe storms of rain and wind ever experienced on the Clarence. The rain, which begun on Monday forenoon, accompanied by an easterly wind,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE City ot Grafton left Grafton at 7 a.m. on Saturday, 21st instant, and came to anchor in the deep hole, the tide not suiting to cross ont, and the sea a little rough. Sunday, more sen, and channel looking very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BALLINA.—There is a tremendous sea breaking on the beach, and as several vessels were in sight, yesterday, (Monday) it is feared, we will hear of some disasters—the gale blowing so direetly on the coast,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A BELGIAN professor has published a work entitled "Periodicite des Grands Deluges Resultant du Mouvement Graduel do Ia Ligne des Aspides do al Terre," in which he warns us that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have had a narrow escape from a great flood. The River Hunter at Singleton Rose up to more than 34 feet above 20 feet 6 inches (washing up to the 36-foot mark); but this was only the Belmore Bridge mark…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Three years ago, similar severe weather to that now preventing was experienced along the coast and over a portion of the interior. It will be remembered that steamers and sailing vessels were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CENTRAL district correspondent of the Brisbane Courier gives the following account of a device recently resorted to to enable travellers to cross a swollen creek, which may give a useful hint…
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