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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1903

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Great Floods in Scotland

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 1

THREE days' continuous downpour of an abnormal character ended in parts in Scotland being visited by floods without precedent within the…

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Political and General. After the Storm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 11 April 1903 · page 4

The calm has succeeded the Tamworth storm. Victors and vanquished have calculated results, and each party has found an answer which best suits the exigencies…

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Terrific Storms at Sea. LONDON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 20 April 1903 · page 2

During a great storm at Marseilles a number of vessels foundered. The new yacht Shamrock III, which Sir Thomas Lipton has built to compete…

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Disastrous Flood at Cootamundra SYDNEY

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 5

An unprecedented flood occurred at Cootamundra last night. Parts of the town were 3ft, under water. There were many narrow escapes from drowning. The…

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Cootamundra Floods. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 27 April 1903 · page 3

An unprecedented flood occurred at Cootamundra last night, parts of the town being three feet under water…

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Flood at Cootamundra

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 28 April 1903 · page 2

AN unprecedented flood occurred at Cootamundra on Thursday night. Parts of the town were 3ft under water. There were many narrow escapes from drowning. The main railway line…

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The Cootamundra Cyclone

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 4 May 1903 · page 2

It was fortunate for Cootamundra that the cyclone which visited the town recently was confined within narrow limits. If its width had been a quarter…

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The Weather. Gale on the Coast

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1903 · page 4

OUR correspondent wired last evening:-- "A strong, cold, south-westerly gale is blowing along the coast, with a heavy sea running. Dirty weather is threatened,…

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The Calm Before the Storm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 4

Outside the columns of the morning papers there is politically the calm before the storm. That there will be a storm when Parliament meets goes without saying; but…

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Awful Disaster. the Oakland Lost. Effects of the Gale. Eleven Persons Perish.-- Heartrending Scenes. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 1 June 1903 · page 2

THE Oakland, with Captain Slater on board, foundered at Nelson's Bay last Wednesday morning. 11 lives were lost. Only five persons…

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Heavy Rainfall and Gale

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 June 1903 · page 4

The heavlest rainfall that has visited the Clarence for the last couple of years was experienced during Sunday night and yesterday morning. Rain commenced to fall…

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The Weather. Heavy Bain and Storms

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1903 · page 2

EARLY last week a disturbance from the south-ward reached the south coast of Australia, causing a rough sea, high wind and rain. It reached Sydney and Newcastle on Tuesday night…

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Winter Gales

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1903 · page 8

The winter gales have set in with almost unexampled severity. The Oakland, a fine screw collier, which weathered the Maitland hurricane,…

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The Weather. Heavy Rain, Floods and Storms

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 June 1903 · page 5

THE heavy rain and wind which set in on Sunday night continued at intervals throughout Tuesday. The wind during Monday night changed from east and south east to south and south-west. After a…

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The Kyogle in the Storm. Fears for Her Safety—sheltering in Trial Bay

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 June 1903 · page 4

A FEELING of great anxiety prevailed throughout the district yesterday as a result of the absence of any news of the steamer Kyogle. On Monday and Tuesday the sea was rough, and the…

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Flood Weather

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 5 June 1903 · page 2

MR. WRAGGE'S latest disturbing element, named " Garvin," has been productive of an unmistakeable change in the weather, in the form of an almost phenomenal rainfall, which…

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The Kyogle in a Gale. A Six Days' Trip Severe Weather on the Coast

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 5

The N.C.S.N. Co.'s steamer Kyoglo, that left Sydney on Saturday night for the Clarence, had a trying experience. The steamer kept her ordinary time as far…

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Flood on the [?]. [?]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 5

Eight inches of rain fell at Kempsey from Sunday till Tuesday evening, 12 inches 82 points at Bellbrook (Upper Macleay), and [?] inches at Smithtown, on the Lower…

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The Kyogle's Return. The Worst Storm Ever Experienced

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 8 June 1903 · page 2

GREAT anxiety prevailed all along the Clarence on Thursday morning when it was announced that no tidings had yet been heard of the whereabouts of the…

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The Recent Gale. Floods in the River.-experiences in Shipping

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1903 · page 3

BRUSHGROVE appears to have suffered considerably in the recent storm. On Tuesday a large pepper tree was snapped across the trunk and fell on Mr. Chisholm's verandah;a nd a gust of wind lifted the…

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