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A telegram from Echuca states that the Murray is still rising, and a large number of families have been driven from their homes to seek refuge on higher ground. In some cases the houses are…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →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 344 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--Murray still rising at Echuca, and the river is now 30ft. above summer level. Blair and Chadwick's Mills are surrounded with water, the yard being covered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Tuesday, the 2nd instant, some alarm was caused in the valleys of the Murray, Campaspe, and Goulburn Rivers, Victoria. In Echuca the lowlying grounds were all flooded; and although…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One of the heaviest easterly gales that has been experienced on the coast for a long time past occurred on Friday and Saturday, and was accompanied with a high sea; but so far as is at present known, only one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One of those easterly gales so prevalent at this period of the year swept along the coast on Saturday, causing considerable delay and, it is feared, damage to the shipping. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—The rivers Murray and Campaspie are still rising at Echuca, and a number more families have had to remove to higher land. Altogether seventy families are flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The wet weather still continues, and there are no signs of it clearing. There was heavy, incessant rain throughout Friday night. On Saturday morning five inches had been registered. Serious apprehensions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GRAFTON, Monday.--From Thursday evening last up to Sunday evening nearly 8in. of rain fell here. The river was up over all the small wharves, and the rain up country is still coming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was hoped that the gale which blew with such fury on Friday and Saturday had passed without causing any serious accident to shipping or loss of human life, but, as will be seen from the telegrams below there is too much…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRISBANE, Monday.--The weather has changed and there is a beautifully clear sky to-day, the prospect being fine. There is a strong fresh, however, in the Brisbane River, owing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Murray River is falling slightly at Echuca; hut it is thought that many weeks will elapse before the waters sufficiently subside to permit the residents again to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The sudden rise of the Campaspe River at Rochester yesterday is beginning to be felt at Echuca, where the River Murray has risen several inches to-day. A number of residents on both sides of the river are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Owing to the late heavy rains and the fresh from the floods, a swift current is running in the Brisbane River, and has caused navigation to be difficult for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE.—The floods are subsiding slowly but surely. As the water recedes in the Mumurkah district, it is seen crops have not suffered much damage. At Echuca the falling of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Kempsey correspondent telegraphed on Thursday:— Rain has been falling for three days, nine inches having been registered for that time. All the low country is covered with water. There is a slight rise in the river…
Continued on Trove, page 390 →The wet weather still continues, and there are no signs of it clearing. There was heavy, incessant rain throughout Friday night On Saturday morning five inches had been registered. Serious apprehensions…
Continued on Trove, page 399 →The sudden rise of the Campaspe River at Rochester yesterday is beginning to be felt at Echuca, where the River Murray has risen several inches to-day. A number of residents on both sides of the river are…
Continued on Trove, page 399 →Both the Murray and Campaspe are slowly falling at Echuca, and if the weather continues fine it should within a week have reached the ordinary limits. The waters of the Campaspe have not retired from…
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