The Queensland Floods
AT Brisbane the gunboat Paluma, the steamer Elamang, and the hulk Mary Evans, which were washed on to the Bunya Walk in the Botanic Gardens, were not able to regain…
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Floods & storms, 1893
158 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 8
The Queensland Floods
As soon as Sir Samuel Griffith reaches Brisbane a Cabinet meeting will he held to consider what action the Government shall take in reference to the flood. Relief was freely distributed at the Brisbane Town…
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THE flood waters have now fallen. In Brisbane the work of cleansing and disinfecting the flooded localities is actively proceeding, and hundreds of men have boon engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cable News. Heavy Gales in the Atlantic. London, Feb. 11
Heavy gales have occurred in the Atlantic; 12 persons are reported to have been washed overboard from vessels. Captain Allan, of the Atlantic liner Pomeranian was lost overboard from his steamer…
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Disastrous floods have taken place in the Transvaal Republic, South Africa. Mines are inundated, houses have been demolished, and railway lines wrecked…
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THE back waters reached their highest in town this morning, when nearly all the business places in the main street were entered by water! many to a depth of several foot, The water is 3ft. deep in the…
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DAMAGE to the amount of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been done in the Grafton district by the flooding of the Clarence, and it is expected that the crops, except on the highest lands, will be…
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LONDON, Feb. 11.—Sir John S. D. Thompson, the Premier of Canada, has made a promise to the Dominion House of Commons that a grant would be voted for the relief of the sufferers by the…
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A PUBLIC meeting to express sympathy with the sufferers by the floods in Queensland, and to establish a relief fund for their aid, was held in the Centennial Hall, Sydney, on Monday evening…
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IT is proposed to give a concert in Goulburn shortly towards that fund for the relief of the sufferers by the floods in Queensland. A recent cablegram states that the…
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A PUBLIC meeting to express sympathy with the sufferers by the floods in Queensland, and to establish a relief fund for their aid, was held in the Centennial-hall, Sydney, on…
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THE Clarence River is in a state of flood. On Sunday the river broke over its banks at South Grafton, and the whole business portion of that section of the town was covered. It is…
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THE floods in Queensland constitute the greatest disaster which has ever befallen Australia. A vast tract of country has been placed under water, business has…
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A committee is being formed in London for the purpose of collecting a private fund for the relief of sufferer by the recent floods in Queensland. The Royal Colonial Institute has passed a vote of…
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HEAVY rain is again general over the greater part of the eastern and south-eastern districts of Queensland. A large extent of country is flodded. At Ipswich yesterday, the river was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. Sydney, Friday, 3 p.m. the Floods in the North
HEAVY rain continues at Casino (Richmond River), over five inches having fallen during the last twenty-four hours. The river is up 22 fact, and the town is flooded…
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A RESIDENT of Brisbane during the pant 44 years, writing on Tuesday last respecting the floods, says:—It is heartrending to look from the house on any side, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods in Queensland. Harrowing Details. The Floods in Brisbane. Thousands of House Submerged. Hundreds of Families Driven from their Homes. The Flood at Ipswich.—Drowning of the Jack[?] Family ad Constable Sandster.—Thrilling Escapes
Brisbane has been visited by a calamity in the shape of a flood which is beyond comparison more disastrous than any every before experienced there. Rain had been…
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A resident of Brisbane during the past 44 years, writing on Tuesday last respecting the floods, says:-- It is heartbreaking to look from the house on any side, for…
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THE floods at Gympie throw about a third of the minors out of work. Altogether there are about 60 miles annually worked n the Gympie reefs, and oat of these some 27 have been flooded out. A…
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