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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
234 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 12
A meeting of forestry experts was held in Sydney to-day to discuss the best means of avoiding forest fires. Speakers discussed the recent bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three thousand sheep were caught in the flood waters near Coonamble and with the exception of about 200 or 300 all were drowned and those saved are still bogged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The body of Walter Rostkin, 24, who had been missing since last Thursday, was found to-day in the Nepean Rive. The body was caught on the top of a wire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The heaviest rainfall for years occurred at Swan Hill to-day, when 5 inches fell in half an hour. Considerable damage was done to settlers' property…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trangie was struck by a cyclone yesterday. The storm was accompanied by heavy rain and vivid lightning, and everything in its path, including churches,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A wireless message from the Resident Commissioner of Cook Islands reports that the fruit crops have been extensively damaged by a cyclonic storm. Raratonga lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mrs. Ayres, one of the women injured during the cyclone on Tuesday night, has died…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During a fierce thunderstorm over North London 200 windows were broken. People declare that they saw a ball of fire from the sky and heard a loud…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miss Isobel Taylor was attempting to swim her horse across a flooded stream at Yanganbil station, in the Warren district, when the animal sank, taking the rider…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A message from Router's. Baghdad correspondent yesterday stated that the safety of Baghdad was seriously threatened by the unprecedented flood of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reuter's Baghdad correspondent on Sunday telegraphed that the irrigation experts describe the outlook at Baghdad that night as worse than ever. The Tigris…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the date originally set apart for officially opening the new concrete bridge at Kimbriki--spanning the Manning River--the ceremony had to be postponed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is a slight improvement in the flood situation, and the river is falling silghtly, but the desert flood level is stationary. The ladies of the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tigris breach, was repaired tonight and Baghdad is no longer considered. to be in danger. The repairs were effected by over 1000 men, who spent the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cyclone is raging along the New South Wales coast. Shipping is sheltering in many ports, and a number of vessels which left Sydney yesterday returned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, today issued a warning to shipping that a severe cyclone is centred between Lord Howe Island and Sydney. It was moving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy rain during the week end caused the Hunter River to rise and during yesterday the water rose 16 feet. It broke the banks at McCrae's Hollow, flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Narkunda, on the voyage from Adelaide to Fremantle, encountered terrific weather during which three portholes collapsed with a loud report…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The coastal steamer Currumbene, is engaged in the timber trade, met the full force of the recent gale mid put into Broken Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to storms sweeping the entire coast of the Janan Sea yesterday, over one hundred fishermen are reported missing. The local authorities at Maizuru assisted…
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