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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1885

3 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Severe Snow Storms in Victoria

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Rain, has been falling very heavily in the city since Friday night, Reports from the country show the weather is general, the cold is intense, and severe…

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The Deluge Legends

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1885 · page 3

THE most universal of all legends are those that relate to the deluge Among the black races alone can we find no traces of them. The delude legends of different races vary widely. Some are merely…

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Appalling Floods in China. 10,000 People Drowned. (From the Overland China Mail of July 2.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 1 September 1885 · page 4

A MOST calmitous flood has just devastated part of the provinces of Canton, causing the death of over 10,000 people, engulphing whole villages, nearly ruining the rice and silk crops, destroying, an…

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