Carried Away in Flood and Swirled Into the Beilsdown Cream Carter's Lucky Escape
A half-draught horse attached to an empty cream cart and driven by Mr. Les. Mills was carried away by the flood waters in Deep Creek on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1933
281 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 15
Dorrigo Orenched Over Twenty Inches This Week Rivers and Creeks Flooded No Mails
The heaviest rainstorm that has occurred in this district for some years was experienced this-week. Between Sunday and Thursday morning over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After Floods How Settlers Fare
When crossings are washed out by floods, or bridges are divided from their approaches, the settlers in the farming districts cannot sit down and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence River Historical Society Diary Of Christopher Parrah Gale Pioneer of the Lower Clarence Journey to Australia in 1855
The author of this diary took up land at Galeville on the South Arm side of Woodford Island, about two miles from Maclean, in the year 1862 and was [?] of the pioneers of farming on the Clarence River. He was one of the first to engage in bee-keeping and the cultivation of sugar cane and bananas…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Monsoons Clash Widespread Indian Floods 50 Dead--villages Destroyed Gang[?]s Bursts Its Banks. Calcutta
Widespread floods and havoc followed the clash of two monsoonal currents in Upper Central India. Villages were destroyed and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eating Sawdust Terrible Conditions Near Harbin Flood Disaster Feared. Shanghai
The White Swastika relief organisation at Harbin reports terrible conditions existing at Hailun, in the Suihwa territory, which has never…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Calm After Storm
On Saturday last, a meeting of the Bellinger River Cooperative Butter Society was held in the midst of a perfect calm which was in striking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deer Vale Doings Floods
When Deervale was visited by the recent heavy downpour of rain, lasting for a week, the mail car was held up on two occasions at the Deer Park…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death and Desolation Storm Lashes Trinidad Small Death Roll--many Injured. London
A message from Port of Spain (Trinidad) states that scenes of death, desolation and destruction were described today as the repaired communication lines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Floods Heavy Toll in Japan 20 DEAD; 1000 Houses Gone. Tokio
The Rakutoko River following a week's heaviest rain in eight years overflowed its banks, spreading destruction. Already 20 people are known to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Raging Storm When Collier Disappeared Graphic Story of Ship's Log. Sydney
A graphic account of a cyclonic storm which raged near Gabo on June 24 is contained in a log of the Koranui which was made available by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japanese Flood Disaster. Tokio
Naval assistance has been invoked to the rescue of thousands of persons marooned by the flooding of the Rakutoko River. The death roll is mounting seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deer Vale Heavy Rain
Deer Vale was visited by heavy rain for a week, resulting in the mail car being held up on a couple of occasions, as was also the cream lorry. The secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence River HlSTORICAL SOCIETY Christopher Gale's Diary Interesting Records Continued Outward Voyage From England Mutiny, Amongst Sailormen (No. 36)
Further extracts from the diary of Christopher Parrah Dale, an early pioneer of the Lower Clarence, who settled near Maclean early in 1862 are as follows:-- A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood and Drought Applications for Relief Sydney
The Minister for Lands, Mr. Buttenshaw, to-day announced that the time for lodging applications for flood and drought relief, for the period 1927-32, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drought and Flood Relief Time Extended for Applications
Mr. Buttenshaw, Minister for Lands, invites attention to the fact that the Government has decided to extend the time for lodgment of applications for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hitler Warned Storm Troops Brutalities Martyrdom of Unionists Creation of Mass Hatred Colleague's Appealing Letter. London
The "Daily Telegraph's" Vienna correspondent says that Count Reventlow, a Nazi leader, writing from the Reichstag has addressed a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence River Historical Society Diary Of Christopher Gale More Interesting Records The Outward Voyage From England End of the Mutiny (No. 37)
Following are further extracts from the diary of Christopher Parrah Gale, an early pioneer of the Lower Clarence, who took up land near Maclean in 1862, continuing the record of the voyage out from England in 1855:-- ARMED TO THE TEETH…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Forty-six Years Ago Separation Movement Highest Flood to Date January, 1887, to June 30, 1887
Grafton residents were clamoring for separation in 1887, and at a meeting of the Railway Committee held at the Theatre Royal, the following resolutions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Radio for Continent Dodging Mountains and Storms Difficulties
Optimistic experts used to design a radio station, and draw a nice circle round it to show the area that it would serve. But somehow it would not work…
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