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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
386 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 20
A message sent from Tabulam at 8.30 last night to the postmaster at Grafton stated that the Clarence River at Tabulam had risen to 21 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telephone message from Murwillumbah last night was to the effect that a very bad time had been experienced there yesterday. Very heavy rains fell in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the members of the Casino Pastures Protection Board met on Tuesday morning they discovered that portion of the board room was deluged from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In consequence of further heavy rain, floods are reported on the Darling Downs and central and southern coastal divisions of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Cowper correspondent last night reported that practically all the farmers had taken their cattle to the flood reserve. The waters there were about three inches…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After a long day of perplexing anxiety the pent up feelings of the residents of Grafton were further strained when the alarm bell was sounded from the fire station shortly before 11 p.m It was subsequently explained that this was a false alarm, but shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reports received in Grafton last night were to the effect that severe floods were being experienced in Kyogle district. About 8 o'clock last night, Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Assistant Chief of the Weather De[?] stated this morning that more heavy and general rain was to be expected during the next 24 hours He added:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The acting State Meteorologist, Mr. Timcke, said to-night that further heavy rains are expected to fall on the North Coast during the next 24 hours,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Before daybreak this morning, in less than two hours, there was a fall of 202 points of rain. This afternoon there was a further registration of two inches…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although the heavy rains have ceased in many parts of the country flood dangers are hot yet over, as the Weather Bureau. predicts further…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old Father Clarence is in angry mood. He has done his best to carry the flood into the sea, but as has happened before to-day, the load has been too great for him. Saturday's flood, which resulted in the inundation of a very large area…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hinkler landed here to-day, having covered 850 miles from Victoria Point in nine hours. After passing Penang, says Hinkler, in a special despatch to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most pathetic incidents of the floods on the Clarence River resulted from the death of Mrs. Catherine Dixon, an elderly resident…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Curtis, the Whiporie Weather prophet," says there will be a flood during Match which will be greater than the present floods. It will be due from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great anxiety was felt by residents of the lower river yesterday when it became known that the Clarence was in flood for the third time in a week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The third flood in the Clarence within a week has come and gone--or I is going--adding to the spoliation of the earlier visitations. Huge areas of pastoral and agricultural lands were again covered by flood waters, homes of town dwellers and farmers were invaded and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Interviewed last night the Mayor of Grafton (Ald. D. AV. Macpherson) said that the damage done to roads and other public works on the river by the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The flood waters which were overlapping the banks at Lower Ulmarra at 1 o'clock yesterday morning and threatened to break inland near the public wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A record flood occurred here. Many shops in the main street are under water and many stock and miles of fencing were destroyed. The water rose rapidly and…
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