Floods in Queensland. Brisbane
There has been the heaviest rainfall known here, and great floods. The railway was stopped, and portions of the Logan and Albert districts are submerged. Great damage has been done to…
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Disastrous Floods in New South Wales. Sydney
Incessant rain, with a strong south-east gale, has continued since Saturday morning, causing a great flood in the Hunter, Patterson, and Williams river. At Maitland the river rose 30ft.,…
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SYDNEY, March 1 —[?] rain with a strong south-east gale base [?] since Saturday morning. causing a [?] in the [?] Patterson and Williams Rivers At [?] the river rose…
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Concerning these disastrous floods, we extract, the following from the Mercury of the 4th inst. During the whole of Monday afternoon, the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald, of the 2nd inst. says :—“ The south-easterly gales which set in on Saturday morning, and blew all Sunday, continued with…
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Disastrous floods have occurred at Boolburra. The roads are twelve feet under water. 300 persons were rescued from drowning by punts. Frightful sufferings have been…
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The Peak Downs Telegram of the 13th is indebted to Mr. W. H. M’ Kean for the following graphic account of some of the flood scenes Dawson :—”On the Thursday a man…
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Deep in the green heart of one of the most pastoral shires in England nestled the village of Hedingham. It was a hilly country, and Hedingham lay at the bottom of an irregular…
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There were many coloured flags fluttering in the sunshine, and the braying of a brazen ban in Hedingham by noontide on the festival day; a combination which to the inhabitants seemed…
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The Murray river is attain rapidly rising. It receded yesterday about 3in., but has risen about 6in. to-day. A great rush of water is coming down and overflowing the banks everywhere. Fears…
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Sylvia speedily left her corner, tired of watching the little groups of people stop to shake hands and talk to one another for fire minutes or so, as if the world held no greater…
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It is half-past ten o’clock, and the visitors have departed from Dean House, after what the two Miss Toynbees declare gushingly to have been a most enjoyable evening. It has…
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“Here comes my mother,” said Edmund, as the rustic of Mrs. Standen’s dress sounded on the staircase. The bell clanged out its summons at the same moment…
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The sun had loft only a low line of crimson behind the cypress and yews in the churchyard, when Sir Aubrey Perriam opened the rustic gate of the school-house garden. He had left…
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Sylvia took the wanderer upstairs to her own room—a mere cottage chamber in the roof, which sloped like that of a toy Noah’s Ark. The furniture was of the poorest, but…
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While Sylvia was in the churchyard, Mr. and Mrs. Carford, alms Carew, were coming to an amicable settlement in the school-house parlor…
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Mr. Perriam regarded his brother in helpless wonderment, Was this abstract philosophy —or the foolishness of an elderly egotist? “I should have thought you were happy in…
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The following is an extract from a private letter dated Buda-Pesth, 28th June: —“We have had one of the most dreadful storms that has happened here in the…
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Not very long did Sir Aubrey keep silence as he and Sylvia stood side by side beneath those tranquil stare. There was one point upon which he was…
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Sylvia fancied there was a condescending air in their very walk. They looked like a queen and princess who had come to visit a peasant girl. Her face, ashy pale just now,…
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