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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
8 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
MR WILLIAM DENTON lectured last Monday, at the Masonic Hall, Sydney, on "The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science. The speaker referred to the Biblical account of the flood, and asserted, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FOR several weeks the waters of the Danube and of its great tributary, the Theiss, have gradually but incessantly risen, until at length the perils with which they have been menacing various parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DR. WIGGINS'S prediction that a severe storm will pass over Australia on the 10th March is the subject (says the Argus) of a further communication from Mr Ellery,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A New York Herald reporter went and "sympathised" with prophet Wiggins, because his storm "went back on him," During the interchange of consolations, the inevitable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE floods which are reported from various parts of the United States are the worst ever known. At midnight, on February 12, a dam protecting the lowlands in the custom part of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Hobart papers report that on the east coast of Tasmania one of the severest gales experienced for some time past prevailed on the 13th instant. It came from the went, and was nocompanied with most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A STROM, or a series of storms, of high wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, swept over portions of northern Texes, Nebraska. Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin, May 17th and 18th, destroying property and lives, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Duke of Argyll delivered a lecture a short time ago at Glasgow on "Geology and the Deluge." He said the common practice was to suppose that there had been a deluge, aad then, to ask for proofs. He…
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