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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1882

7 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Great Storm in England

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1882 · page 4

ANOTHER of those great storms which have marked a year of otherwise brilliant weather has just visited the British isles. The fine morning of Nov. 26, was accompanied by the rapid falling of the barometer,…

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Disastrous Storm in Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 6

A TELEGRAM in the Newcastle Herald, dated Wednesday, states "It has been raining in torrents the whole of the afternoon with such continuance of heavy rain as has been hardly…

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Floods on the Mississippi

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1882 · page 6

TERRIBLE news comes from the vicinity of the Mississippi, which continues to overflow. Point Coupee levee, Louisiaa, where much work has been done, is crumbling under the influence of…

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Floods and Droughts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1882 · page 6

"Flood[?] and Droughts, and How to Cure both those Evils; also a.Vision of what Sydney will be Half a Century Hence." By George Wm, Townsend. Fuller's, Parramatta and Sydney,…

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The Possible Flooding of the Delta

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1882 · page 6

AN old resident in Egypt states that the British public hardly realises what the present gain in time means to Arabi Pasha."It not only enables him to rally the people round his standard under the…

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Flood Boats for the Clarence. to the Editor of the Clarence Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1882 · page 5

SIR,—With many others, I would like to know whether any reply has been received from the Government relative to boats being provided for this district, for use at times of flood. If not, I think the…

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Re-flooding of the Mine at Creswick

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday.—During the whole of this week the miners have been most busily engaged in clearing out the new Australasian Mine at Creswick, in order to enable the mining inspectors to examine the drive…

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