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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
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The popular steamer Wellongbar was attached to the jetty at Byron Bay on Saturday. The first loading had been finished, when a gale suddenly blew up. Captain Hunter decided to make for a safe anchorage, but before…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Owing to the heavy rain which occurred yesterday the telegraph lines were broken down at several places between Murwillumbali and Sydney and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"The olde sea wall (he cried) is downe, The rising tide comes on apace, And boats adrift in yonder towne Go sailing uppe the market place."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sunday night's storm at Byron Bay was the most boisterous experienced for years. The already water-soaked soil refused to hold any more moisture, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early to-day a big party of seamen and others, in charge of the First Mate, rowed over to the wreck, and, boarding her proceeded to possess themselves of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sydney racehorse Remmon, which is coming to Brisbane to compete for the Brisbane Thousand, was aboard, but he escaped injury. Throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bombala arrived in Brisbane from Sydney this afternoon after a boisterous voyage. The after part of the vessel presented a confused scene of splintered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Between 8 o'clock on Saturday morning and 7 o'clock yesterday morning the Richmond passed through one of the most extraordinary rain periods in its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When day broke yesterday there came an opportunity to measure the extent of the damage inflicted by the torrential rain of Sunday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Federal Hall will lie flooded with music on Thursday night next on the occasion of the benefit concert in aid of Bandmaster Clark, of the Salvation Army,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A trip out on the railway yesterday provided a fine sight. Everywhere along the river and creek banks as far as Booyong the country was under water, in most places…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rising gradually but surely the Richmond River at Lismore obtained at midday yesterday a height of 26ft. 3in. The waters were then rising at the rate of about two and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Over nine and a half inches of vain fell at Casino between Friday afternoon and Monday morning. The official record is 966 points…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Caught in the act of "letting go," after taking aboard the bulk of her cargo, the N.C.S.N. Co's, fine steamer, s.s. Wollongbar, was driven ashore at…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →In an endeavor to cross Maguire's Creek, R. R., on his way to work on Monday morning, a man named Green was carried down the stream by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GRAFTON, Tuesday. -- The average rainfall from Friday to Monday on the Clarence was about 18 inches. The river was rising very slowly at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The latest reports from Woolombi show that all the creeks in that district are bankers. Low-lying land is being flooded, and the creek bridges are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Much satisfaction was felt yesterday when it was seen that the flood waters in the Richmond River and Wilson and Leycester Creeks at Lismore had receded to a…
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