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In another column will be found reports of serious floods along the Murray and in the north-eastern parts of Victoria. Telegrams which we received on Thursday night stated that during the day the Murray fell two…
Continued on Trove, page 286 →Heavy floods are reported in the Goulburn Valley. The river is within a few feet of the great flood of 1870, and now registers 31 feet above summer level. The town of Yea is inundated, many people having taken refuge in the trees on…
Continued on Trove, page 291 →The heavy rainfall, together with the recent swollen state of the river, has caused an exceptional rise, and apprehensions of damage by the flood-waters are generally entertained. For weeks past the Murray has been…
Continued on Trove, page 291 →The Murray at Albury, has been rising, and has covered the flats and the lower portions of the town. There are fears of much damage, if the river rises higher, for it is now…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--The phenomenal rainfall has stopped [?] works on the new lines of [?]ways throughout the colony, but as yet no injury to permanent way has occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COORTOWN, Friday.--The following summary of Eastern news was brought by the steamer Catter[?]n, which arrived [?] Cooktown yesterday from H[?]kong, her latest China…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Tocumwal the rise in the river still continues. The residence of the Victorian Customs officer is surrounded by water. Tuppal Creek is running a banker. The operations of the Railway Department are…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The latest report regarding the Murray at Tocumwal is that the river is 17ft. 3in. above summer level, and is falling. The floods in the creek at Numurkah are increasing rapidly. Broken Creek overflowed to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Messrs. Chaffey Bros. have their surveyors actively at work at Bookmark. the scene of the proposed irrigation colony, and will this season have the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--On Saturday a telegram was received from Numurkah stating that the floods were increasing in the district, causing immense damage to the crops. The Murray is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The TIMES Calcutta correspondent says it is now unhappily certain that at least two vessels—the Sir John Lawrence and the tug Retriever—were lost in the recent cyclone. It was hoped…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.—The new shaft at the [?]aryville Colliery became flooded with a rush of water on Saturday night, and one workman had only just time to warn the three others who were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A telegram from Numurkah states that the flood shows some signs of abating. The irrigation works at Strathmerton have been washed away. Farms are entirely submerged to a depth of from three to four…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Monday.-- The flood waters about Numurkah and Shepparton are now falling, and as the waters recede the great damage done to crops and road works is apparent. At…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The waters of the Murray still continue to rise slowly, but it is not expected that a much further increase of the flood will take place. In Echuca East the water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--At Echuca the Murray River is still rising and is now 29ft. above summer level. Above Echuca reports come that the floods are subsiding. The Gouiburn River…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Philippopolis, June 14.—Accounts received here from Bourgas of the hailstorm which recently passed over the districts of Aitos and Camobat describe it as of an extraordinary character, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY.—The Murray and Campaspe Rivers at Echuca are still rising. The water is spreading over some of the footpaths and roadways of the town. Fifty-three families…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Echuca the flood waters of the Murray continue to rise slowly. Portions of the Goulburn-road are covered with water, and the residents are preparing to leave their houses. At Echuca East the water has risen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WALLSEND, Saturday.—It rained almost incessantly last night, with every indication of continuing. The result is that all the low-lying land in the town is covered with a large sheet of…
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