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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1887

7 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

The Flood on the Clarence. GRAFTON

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 3

The flood on Sunday last was higher by 14 inches at Grafton than has ever before been known, there being but little of the city which escaped inundation…

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The Flood at Casino

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 3

The greatest sufferer in town is Mr. J. Jordan, whose hotel on Sunday Morning looked a complete wreek, near everything in the place being saturated. The foundation blocks at the…

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The Flood at Grafton

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 3

We can heartily sympathise with the Grafton people, having had a lively experience of the '76 flood and its result, and if as stated the water had risen two feet six inches higher than…

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Floods on the Richmond and Clarenoe Rivers

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1887 · page 2

ONE of those events which, fortunately, do not happen frequently, and what the black follows call an old man flood, has severely visited both the Clarence anil Richmond…

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Disastrous Floods in Queensland

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1887 · page 4

DISASTROUS floods have occurred all over the southern part of the colony. The lower parts of Brisbane and of Woolloongabba are submerged, and all…

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Flood in the Macleay

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 4 March 1887 · page 4

HEAVY rain set in on Saturday morning, and continued until 7 a.m. on Sunday, when it cased off, slight showers falling throughout the day. The total rainfall for the 24 hours…

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Terrible Loss or Life in the Recent Cyclone

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 August 1887 · page 4

THE Times' Calcutta correspondent says it is now unhappily certain that two vessels—the Sir John Lawrence and the tug Retriever—were lost in the recent…

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