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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
63 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 4
TELEGRAMS from Bourke states that the water was rising one inch daily, and that in all probability it would be three weeks before the town was clear of water. Everything is going on well at the refugees camp at North Bourke, where there are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alderman ROTHSCHILD, on behalf of the Borough Council, road a resolution passed at a recent meeting of the Council in reference to raising embankments to keep out flood waters. This motion was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Lismore people have scored well in respect to the flood relief business. The total expenditure in relieving distress only amounted—it is stated—to £29 4s 10d, leaving a balance of £50 available for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RESPECTING the motion of Mr. Waddell in the Assembly to place a sum of £20,000 on the Estimates for execution of flood embankments at Bourke, Mr. SEE said he desired to impress upon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—One would think that the old proverb "Enough is as good as a feast," has been forgotten by your correspondent, for "Like the dog to his vomit," he returns to the old bone of contention…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE report of the board, consisting of Messrs. Edmund Fosbery, Whittingdale Johnson, and S. Perdrian, appointed to visit Bourke during the recent floods and investigate the state of affairs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is indeed a subject for regret that Nature, previous to the advent of British, colonising efforts, had not raised the situation upon which our city is built a few—say ten or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following correspondence has taken place respecting the grant of £500 lately obtained by the Member for Grafton, from the old fund of 1867. On May 12th, the Mayor sent; the following telegram…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A WALGETT correspondent writes to the E. News—Reports are continually coming in of the immense loss of stock in the district, but no reliable information can be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AMERICA is a country where few things are done by halves. Almost everything commencing with the works of nature itself is upon a gigantic scale. It is the country of great things, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. M'DOUGALL, P.M., received a circular from the management of the above stating that the Executive Committee consider it desirable that the funds collected for relief should be disposed of as soon as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TELEGRAM states that the bye-wash dam acress Tallywalka Creek, on Tintinallogy Station, was carried away during the height of the rise. This is the dam which was highly spoken about in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE following correspondence has been handed to us for publication:— Town Hall, Sydney, June 16, 1890. Dear Sir—Your favour of the 12th instant, just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE latest attempt to enlighten the English public on Australian scenery and affairs, emanates from the London Daily Graphic. The landable endeavour takes the form of an illustration of the floods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE lifeboat Storm King has practicaly demonstrated its seaworthiness, Captain Jorgensen having arrived safely in Australian waters with her after a venturesome voyage. The Storm King set sail from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.—In "Echoes" in your issne of Saturday last you strongly recommend that the names of those who received flood relief should be published in the interests of the public. This procedure, in my…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE report, a resume of which the MINISTER FOR PUBLIC WORKS has received from Mr. GORDON C.E., on the Hunter district floods, is of importance to us, as indicating the stupendous nature and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE decision of the Supreme Court in the appeal case GALE v. HENDERSON and another will be satisfactory to no one, unless it be to those who secure the fees. By the decision the main question…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following account of the recent disastrous cyclone in Minnesota is extracted from a letter from Miss Mary Mowbray, of St. Paul, to her grandfather in England:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON the Macleay the grubs are destroying the early maize. A sample of flooded maize was lately forwarded to the Department of Agriculture by some…
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