The Richmond River in Flood
LISMORE, TUESDAY.—A heavy E. to S.E. gale blew from Friday until Saturday evening, accompanied by heavy showers at times. Several old buildings of no value were blown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1893
125 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 7
Great Storm at Ballina
LAST WEEK opened upwith showery weather, with a southerly wind, and wires from Melbourne told of an approaching storm of unusual severity. Saturday morning brought…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Disastrous Flood on the Macleay. The Highest yet Recorded. 19 Houses Washed Away. 15 Acres of the River Bank Swept Away. Great Havoc Near Clybucca
KEMPSEY, THURSDAY.—On the Macleay, the highest flood recorded since the settlement of the district occurred on Sunday night. Rain set in on Wednesday, and for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Original Lines. a Flood Cry
O. the crushing description Of fearful affliction[?] O, the pain for a pen to depict What the waters have wasted,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further Details of the Flood
RESIDENTS of Lower Alumny Creek state that so long as the embankment stood, their properties were receiving substantial benefit, and even though a rupture occurred the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flood in Brisbane
THE flood which has visited Brisbane proved more serious than was anticipated. The maximum reached being about 4ft. below the level of the flood of 1890, which up to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Gap at Leonard's. Wash-away by the Recent Flood
NOW that the water has receded, a full view can be obtained of the damage done to the embankment at Leonards farm, below Grafton. A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Prevention Scheme. The Danger of Interfering with the Regimen of Rivers
AT the present time the following article from the S. M. Herald, having reference to the Hunter River, may be read with some degree of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Damages to Doble-street
THIS street fared badly with the recent flood, more especially along Fisher Purk. A considerable portion of the Park fence was washed away, and in the double section…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Scene after the Flood at the M[?]y
The rainfall at Kempsey was not nearly as great as at the time of the flood three months ago, but an immense quantity must have fallen on the upper parts of the river, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Clarence River Flood Relief Fund
AT a meeting of Trustees on Tuesday, there were, present — Messrs. S. See (chair), J. M'Pherson, D. Gillies, S. Macnaughtan, E. Shields, E. Arnold, D. Bea[?]son, G. H…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Reserve beyond the Junction
A MEETING of those interested in procuring a flood reserve for stock on some of the high land beyond the Junction wis held at Arnold's Junction Hotel on Thursday evening,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Prevention Scheme
MR. EDITOR.—The article from the Herald, re-published and commented upon in your last issue, is of considerable interest at the present conjecture, for, as you justly remark,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Incidents of the Macleay Flood
PROBABLY no one is deserving of greater sympathy in his loss than Mr. E. J. Williams flate of Grafton). burnt out in the January fire in Belgrave-street, and only saving a few things by the flood, not only was the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Re Alumny Creek Flood Reserve
MR. EDITOR.Last week a resolution was carried by a very small house at Alumny Creek in favour of disposing of the only flood reserve we have in our midst, and to use the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Prevention Scheme
MR. EDITOR.âHere is another scheme for diverting the flood waters effectually from the Clarence River valley to the sea in a distance of from 18 to 20 miles, commencing,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Regues and Free Grass
MR. EDITOR.—I gather from statements that have recently appeared in the Press, that it has become patent to a number of persons that the Flood Reserve at Alumny Creek is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Refuges. In Reply to Pastural Farmer
MR. EDITOR.—I would crave your indulgence to permit me, through your columns, to reply, to the letter signed "Pastoral Farmer," which appeared in last Tuesday's Examiner,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Refuges
MR. EDITOR.—In rending "Pastoral Farmer's" remarks under the above heading, I will ask a small space to reply. The latter part of his statement leads me to think he…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Floods in Tasmania
ON Thursday the Mayor of Launceston went round Inveresk and ordered all the people to prepare to leave, their houses at a moment's warning. This was obeyed, so that when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →