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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
26 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
ON Sunday night, 2nd November, the penal settlement at Port Blair, Andaman Islands, was visited by a cyclone, which occasioned the loss of the g[?]ard ship, and did great damage to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE gales that commenced on the Southern coast early last week were not experienced here till Friday, when they set in from the south-east. During that night and Saturday the gale increased in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT falls to our lot once more to reord one of those disastrous visitations which, we regret to say, are now all too frequent to ensure that permanent prosperity which the industry and enterprise and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. EDITOR—The farmers of this river, and I think more particularly in Ulmarra, are again saddled with a heavy loss through flood, and if they want to know the quickest way to get over their trouble,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE Tuesday we have obtained further information respecting the disaster that befell the district this week. Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THOUGH as far as West Maitland is concerned, there was no direct overflow from the river there is a veritable flood in the back part of the town. The embankment which the people in the vicinity of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOME misunderstanding appears to have arisen respecting the application for a special grant fof repairing flood damages on the streets and bridges of the city. Mr. Ranken, of the Landa Department,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. EDITOR.—In your Tuesday's issue you ask "What can be done to protect a community from flood disaster?" If you will grant me a short space I wish to point out the urgent need of telegraph or…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE damage done by the recent floods on the maize crop has been heavy, and altogether there has been vast destination of late corn on the North Coast. Nearly the whole of the early in this district was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. EDITOR.—With great respect, I would venture to make a few remarks in connection with the great flood now slowly subsiding. I am of opinion that it has shadowed forth a good photo—a warning of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. EDITOR.—A petition is now in circulation here, in which the Minister is asked to take steps to prevent the influx of water from the Coldstream, through the two inlets known respectively as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE disastrous effect of the floods upon the river banks is becoming more patent on the occasion of every recurring—more than ordinarily—heavy rainfall. Some of those effects are more or less intensified…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE flood waters having subsided, the question of constructing embankments, protecting the river bank and keeping flood waters out of the town have disappeared from the surface of public thought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Thursday evening a number of citizens assembled at the Council Chambers, at the invitation of the Mayor, to consider the best method of preventing the ingress of flood waters to the city…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is reserved for refuge in time of flood, and is therefore withdrawn from lease or license: 300 acres, county of Clarence, parish of Gulmarrad, commencing at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Mayor has received intimation that surveys are to be made and levels taken for a flood prevention scheme for North and South Grafton. This will he done by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Mayor has been officially notified that plans and specifications for the proposed flood prevention works at Leonard's and Alumny Creek are in course of preparation,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£150 A WEEK is now being extracted from weeds growing in flooded corn fields in and about Ulmarra. Plainly, this means that during the lost 20 years those farmers have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY, MONDAY—Additional reports concerning Friday's storm are to hand. During Friday the heaviest fall of snow since 1872 was experienced at Glen Innes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE storm on last Friday night did great damage in all parts of the colony. The wind had a velocity of 120 miles per hour, and was the strongest gale since 1876, when the…
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