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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1889

54 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 3

The Agricdltdrist & GRAZIER. Effects of Late Flood

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 6

OUR farmers haye good reason to congratulate themselves on the comparatively small injury done to their crops or belongings, by the lateflood. A very large proportion of…

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The Late Flood

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 3

OUR Lawrence correspondent writes:—July 22nd: I do not know of any subject affecting us, or engaging our attention at the present time, more than this; everyone seems busy house-cleaning, drying, and…

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The Late Flood

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 8

Mr. E. J. STATHAM has taken the level of the last flood, and finds that at Grafton the rise was 19 feet 1 inch; that of the 1876 flood, 23 feet 8 inches; and of the great flood of 1887, 24 feet 9 inches…

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THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859.] Saturday Morning, 27Th July, 1889. Provision for Warning People in Times of Flood

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 4

THESE are many lessons which may be gathered from the recent flood; lessons which should neither be cast on one [?] or forgotten; lessons which should guide the people in the public interest to…

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The Floods in Some Parts o[?] Queensland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1889 · page 4

THE Stanley River correspondent of the Brisbane Courier writes from Cobulture on July 21:—"The water in the Stanley River rose to a height far in excess of any previous…

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The Floods in Some Parts of Queensland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 July 1889 · page 4

THE Stanley River correspondent of the Brisbane Courier writes from Cobulture on July 21:—" The water in the Stanley River rose to a height far in excess of any previous…

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The Agriculturist & GRAZER. Flood Deposits

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 6

THE analysis of certain flood deposits by Mr. Angus Mackay, proving their enormous fertilising power, has occasioned some discussion by correspondence through the press. To an almost universal estent…

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The Agriculturist & GRAZIER. Flood Deposits

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 6

THE analysis of certain flood deposits by Mr. Angus Mackay, proving their enormous fertilising power, has occasioned some discussion by correspondence through the press. To an almost universal extent…

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A Romance of Johnstown Flood

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 September 1889 · page 3
Also in Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser

FICTION could not furnish a more romantic marriage (says Philadelphia Record) than that of Edward Levy, an Omaha millionaire, and Angie Fackler, a survivor of the terrible Johnstown flood,…

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Chapter X.—storms

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 12 October 1889 · page 6

"Where are you going this morning Clifford?" "To Alderley, mother. Won't you come? If you will, I shall get out the dogcart and drive you over. " It is a lovely morning."…

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Chapter X—storms

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1889 · page 6

"Where are you going this morning. Clifford?" "To Alderley, mother. Won't you come? If you will, I shall get out the dogcart and drive you over. "It is alovely morning."…

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The Late Storms

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1889 · page 2
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THE effects of the recent storms serve to exemplify the vicissitudes attendant on the avocation of an agriculturist. There are comparatively few uninitiated with a farmer's…

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