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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1894

12 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Floods in Victoria. Immense Damage to Property.—Great Loss of Live Stock

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 8

ADDITIONAL particulars continue to come to hand regarding the disastrous floods experienced in Victoria. With the exception of three small patches of maize, there are…

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Flood Prevention Seheme

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 3

MR. EDITOR.—I read with great interest the scheme for prevention of floods lately published, and would like to suggest an additional use for the bore…

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Droughts and Floods

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 January 1894 · page 8

"J.O.B." writes in the Sydney Mail: In the presence of certain hurtful natural phenomena-earthquakes,. tidal waves, droughts, blizzards, and the like-man is still helpless…

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Floods on the Macleay

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 March 1894 · page 5

KEMPSEY, TUESDAY, 10.20 A.M.—707 points rain fell at Kempsey during last 24 hours, making 15.00 since Saturday. The river has risen about 20 feet, and rising slowly…

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The Manniing in Flood

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1894 · page 3

JUST as, every thing has again, assumed a promising aspect, brought, about by a combination of circumstances, another reverse has occurred to blight, the prospects of the…

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The Floods in North Queensland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 4

NEWS by mail from Geraldton confirms, the telegrams with reference to the floods in that district. The correspondent of the Townsville Bulletin was caught en route…

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Flood Embankments

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 July 1894 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT writes: "I am glad to find that the time has arrived when the Government is not turning a denf ear to the demanda of the ratepayers of Grafton in…

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Recent Scientific Research. A Possible Cause for the Origin of the Tradition of the Flood

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 September 1894 · page 3

ONE of the largest recent gatherings in London, England, was the annual meeting of the Victoria Institute in July. It was presided over by Sir…

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Chapter Iii. After a Night of Storm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 September 1894 · page 6

IT is morning once more on the noble river, and the bright, wintry sun is sending; his level beams over and along the waters of the German' Ocean, and flooding with a…

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Result of a Great Financial Storm. Position of Victoria Graphically Described

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 September 1894 · page 2

A VICTORIAN, recently addressing a public meeting in that colony, graphically described the position of affairs, which, to a very large extent…

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A Flood of Talk

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 October 1894 · page 4

OF the active minority a large proportion are particularly active. And they are also particularly conceited. They act as if they wished to produce the impression that they…

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The Farmers' Lot. Floods, Bad Seasons, Over-production, Low Prices. Collapse of the Potato Market

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 November 1894 · page 4

THE lot of the New South Wales farmer is certainly not a happy one-least happy is the lot of that particular farmer located in this district The former, taken…

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