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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
63 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 4
THE district has been visited by another heavy rainfall, and since Snnday last the rain has fallen almost continuously. Few anticipated when the dry weather broke up that such a heavy fall would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FORTUNATELY the inundation threatened last week did not reach the dimensions anticipated by many, still the waters rose sufficiently high to do considerable damage to the young maize crop in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE intrusion of flood waters last week through the erosion of the bank a couple of miles below Grafton, whereby the backwaters were sensibly raised, calls for some immediate action towards…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE ORARA.—At Glenreagh the Orara rose several feet higher than with any previously known flood. In some parts of the valley of the Orara much damage was done to the maize crops, which looked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE largest flood known on the Macleay for 15 years has taken place. The maize crops left from the floods three weeks ago are now completely destroyed by the gale. All the Lower Macleay is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Fernmount left Bellinger River on the morning of the 31st, and arrived at Woolgoolga at 9 a.m. the same day, the weather being very unsettled. At 10 on same night, wind and sea rising, with heavy rain squalls, Captain Anthon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Claim of 1s for wharfage dues. Mr. Donaldson, for plaintiff, Mr. Laman for defendant. This was a test case to decide whether plaintiff, as lessee from the Borough Council of the public[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. ALBERT GALE, who has been appointed teacher in agriculture in the public schools, is a man fairly qualified by experience to fill the position. He is a Cornishman; and for many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN an article in the Contemporary Review on "The Deluge—Bibical and Geological," Sir J. William Dawson says:—"As children we listened with awe and wonder to the story…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE principal damage has been done less by an overflow of the streams than by a thorough saturation of the soil, and the filling up of all hollows by the drainage from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Hunter district has been by no means singular in its suffering from excessive rain. Reports from every quarter of New South Wales speak of swollen creeks and rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Sydney Mail, under the heading "A Flood of Agricultural Shows," refers to the prevailing opinion that Agricultural Shows are altogether too numerous. In support of this contention, it states…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE continued wet weather which set in at the new year, and that already had made 1890 more than ordinarily remarkable, culminated this week in the largest and, at the same time, one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR columns to-day present a doleful tale of losses devastation and distress, caused by the recent disastrous flood: losses that it will take many months of uninterrupted prosperity to repair; devastation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, FRIDAY, 6 P.M.—Brisbane was inundated, and homeless families were numbered by hundreds. The lower part of the city is still under water. In Stanley-street, South Brisbane, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.—Heavy rains are reported from all the Northern rivers, which are in flood. The main street of Picton is under water. At Windsor, the Hawkesbury bridge is 18 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LISMORE, MONDAY.—There has been a high flood during the last two days, reaching its highest yesterday at 3 p.m., when it began to fall slowly. Up to to-day it fell two feet. It has been within…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FERNMOUNT, THURSDAY.—The flood here was at its highest on Tuesday at noon, when it was much higher on the lower than the upper part of the river; but was very destructive from Boat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, SATURDAY.—The floods have gone, and the river is now about the ordinary level. The scene is one of rain and desolation, incalculable damage having been done. The people in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WINDSOR, SATURDAY.—The flood waters are receding. Search parties were out on Friday, but failed to find young Dunstan's body. A young man named Charles Chalmers, the son of an old and…
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