Brisbane, Monday. Disastrous Floods
Heavy floods are reported all over the, southern part of the colony, Brisbane and the lower portions of Woolloongabba are submerged, and all road traffic is…
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Floods at Gtm&agai
There are heavy floods at Gundagai. The Murrumbidgee rose 27 feet above summer level, and the site of the old township of Gundagai was submerged…
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The floods in Queensland continue unprecedented, and all the country around the Logan River is inundated. Nine persons are known to have been drowned…
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The Richmond River has risen 60 feet, and it is feared that there has been loss of life in the upper Richmond district, but, owing to the telegraph lines being…
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Heavy floods are reported in a number of country districts, causing great destruction of property. The town of Grafton is submerged…
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Ail official telegram this morning states that the flood at Grafton was the heaviest ever known, and five feet higher than the flood in 1876. There is over five feet of…
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There are also floods in the northern districts. The mail train from Narrabri was delayed 12 hours, owing to the serious washing away of the line between Breeza…
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There have been great floods in the Murrurabidgee, near Wagga Wagga. The river rose 27 feet, and a fearful flood is anticipated, if the rain continues much…
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A great flood has occurred here. The river is up 33 feet, being two feet above the flood of 1876. There has been immense destruction to property, but so far no reliable account of loss of life…
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FROM Ipswich we learn that the flood was exceedingly heavy. The Queensland TIMES of Saturday gives an account of the damage done up to the hour of going to…
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THE COURIER of Monday devotes thirteen columns of closely printed matter to describing the disastrous effects of the flood which has devastated Brisbane and its…
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FROM certain meteorological statistics, recently published in Germany, we learn that thunder storms in that country have, during the last thirty…
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The Hunter River rose 37 feet, at Singleton, but has since fallen 7 feet. The water rose, at Morpeth, quite suddenly, 11 feet. The river broke over the bank…
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THE recent inundation has revived a tradition told by the aboriginals of a great flood which happened long before the advent of Europeans. The story of the blacks when analysed contains…
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Yesterday floods were reported at Camden Penrith Windsor and Grafton. At the latter place there was great excitement and it was feared the flood would…
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Three inches and 86 points of rain fell at Cootamundra from 2 to 8 o'clock en Sunday morning. Salt Clay Creek was higher than at the time of the Cootamundra…
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Later news concerning the disastrous cyclone at Normanton states that seven lives were lost, and many business people were ruined. The loss to Messrs. Aplin…
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THE following telegram, dated 12th instant, has been received by the Meteorological Observer, Brisbane, from Mr. P P. Agnew, telegraph manager, Burketown:--"On the 5th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Telegraphic News. [Through Greville's Company.] New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. [Lodged 11.52; received 12.38.]. Heavy Rain
IT has been raining for the past six days almost without intermission. The lowlying suburbs are flooded, and there was another heavy. down-pour last night and…
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There has been another great hood on the Tweed River, which has risen ten feet, and is still rising, with heavy rain. The cane-cutting is entirely suspended…
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