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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1910

233 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 12

Paris in Flood. People Homeless and Starving

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 5

After a brief period of fine frosty weather in Paris, which gave promise of the floods subsiding, additional heavy rains caused a further…

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Latest Telegrams. The Western Floods. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 5

The Barwon and Namoi Rivers are both falling, slowly at Walgott, but thousands of acres of country are still submerged. All the roads are still…

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The French Floods. LONDON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 5

The River Seine at Paris has fallen four feet since Saturday, but the entire Seine Valley to Havre ds flooded At Rouen the quays and wharves…

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French Floods. Shooting the Pillagers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday.—The President of the Chamber of Deputies announced that testimonies of sympathy, for which Frenchmen were grateful, were being…

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The North-West Floods

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—The mailman from Walgett to Brewarrina on Wednesday could only proceed thirteen miles, owing to the height of the flood…

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Latest Cables. The French Floods. LONDON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 7 February 1910 · page 3

The subsidence of the waters in Paris is causing a collapse of many roads, embankments and houses…

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The Western Floods. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 7 February 1910 · page 3

The flood reached its height on Sunday at Brewarrina, when three houses at the end of one street were submerged. The water reached to within…

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The Western Floods

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 8 February 1910 · page 5

BOURKE, Saturday.— The river is now 27fts, and is still rising. There seems no possible danger of any water running into the town Another 12ft, of water…

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The Paris, Floods

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 8 February 1910 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The subsidence, of water, in Paris, is causing the collapse of many roads, embankments, and houses. The Mansion House relief fund in…

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Horrors of Flood

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 8 February 1910 · page 5

A woman and a young girl returned to an abandoned house at Alfortville, which immediately collapsed. The woman was killed, but the girl was rescued…

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The North-West Floods. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 9 February 1910 · page 3

The flooded state of the rivers in the North-West is still interfering with the interchange of mails and circuitous routes have to be followed…

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Yesterday's Storm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1910 · page 4

The heavlost storm that has visted Gralton for many years took place yesterday afternoon. At about 2 o'clock heavy clouds came up from the south-east, and…

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Flood Mitigation

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1910 · page 4

At the last meeting, of the South Grafton Progress Association a suggestion was made that the Navigation Committee should deal, with the question of…

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Floods in Paris

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1910 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The French Government is ashing, Parliament for a further grnnt of £800,000 in order, to compensate sufferers by the recent floods…

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The North-West Floods

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1910 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The flooded rivers, in the North-West are, still, Intcrfering with the interchange of malls, and circuitous routes have to be followed…

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The French Floods. LONDON, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 5

The French Government is heightening the parapets along the river Seine and constructing dams at danger points in Paris, where the river is…

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A Heavy Storm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 2

Wednesday last was one of the most oppressive dayss experienced here for some considerable time, and residents were not surprised when ominous thunder…

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Floods in Europe The Seine Ruing

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday.—The Seine is still rising in Paris at the rate of about a foot daily. The Government has ordered an…

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The Paris Floods

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The Bank of France will advance £4,000,000 to enable the Government to make grants to sufferers by the floods. The loan will be free of…

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The French Floods. LONDON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 5

The River Seine is rising again today and the flood situation is assuming an alarming aspect. A number of the low-lying suburbs of Paris are…

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