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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
6 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
DR. CHRISTISON had observed that an unusually brilliant display of aurora borealis was invariably followed on the third day by a storm—a theory which was proved at a most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ferndale colliery, near Newcastle, is flooded, through water breaking in from Throeby's Creek. Two miners named John Jenkins and Henry Hargraves are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Here camped upon the Australian alps Where the mountain ash doth grow On a still November's afternoon I watch the falling snow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE incessant rainfall of the last seventy hours (says St. James's Gazette of 14th May) has caused the rivers of Derbyshire to rise rapidly, and this morning the Derwent has flooded thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT Charleville the River Warrego is two miles wide, and the low-lying country is flooded. The flood commenced to subside at midnight, but very slowly, when just on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DURING the years whom floods were the rule and not exceptions, the want of a propor flood gauge was more than once suggested in this paper, but nothing of the kind was…
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