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Sir,--The heavy rain, as already reported in your telegraphic news; has caused the rivers in this district to be flooded, and, as usual, the fine agricultural district around…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scarcely any ram has fallen at Brisbane during the past two days. The river is now at its tidal level. The inhabitants have been busily occupied since Friday cleansing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods of unequalled extent have occurred on the Mississippi River, in the United States of America, but the damage done was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.--Floods of unequalled extent have occurred on the Mississippi River in the United States of America, But the damage done was comparatively not of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fine or clearing weather and receding floods is the burthen of most of our Saturday's telegrams. Light rain is still falling in a few scattered places, but these rains would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Sunday.--Scarcely any rain has fallen in Brisbane during the past two days. The river is now at tidal level. The inhabitants have been busily occupied since Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILCANNIA, Saturday, 4.45 p.m.--There is now no doubt that one of the biggest floods in the River Darling since the memorable one of 1864 will have to be recorded. The country…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Light winds between south-east and north-east with fine weather, cloudy in places, prevailed throughout New South Wales yesterday. In the city it was warm; the highest temperature recorded during the day at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WEST MAITLAND, Monday.—Now that the flood waters are receding in Maitland and the Hunter River is fast going down, another danger is threatening the district in the shape of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Monday.—The work of relieving the destitute is being actively carried on. This morning' at the town hall the Mayor attended I at an early hour, and many families got food…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, March 14.—Freshets of an unprecedented character, caused by tor-rential spring rains that have fallen over a vast extent of country, have during the past…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Monday, 12.30 p.m.—The weather is fine. A few elands are hanging about. The body of a man unknown has been found in Breakfast Creek. The body of a man…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MAITLAND Monday.—The river at MaitLand is now rapidly going down, and in the course of a few days it will, no doubt, be at its old level. The streets of the town, however, are in a terrible…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News from the out-lying portions of the district proves that the flood was most destructive. The Clarence experienced extensive landslips in various places in the banks, endangering buildings and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A public meeting was held here on Saturday night to ask the Government to relieve the distress amongst the farmers who lost everything by the floods, and who will be idle until next ploughing season in July. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Very great distress has resulted from the late floods. Over 1000 houses were flooded in Brisbane and the immediate suburbs alone. Consequently, several thousand persons are rendered homeless, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Morfa Colliery, near Cardiff, South Wales, in which so many lives were recently lost through an explosion, has been flooded in order to extinguish the fire which broke…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.--The Morfa Colliery, near Cardiff, South Wales, in which so many lives were recently lost through an explosion, has been flooded in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WINDSOR, Monday.--The funerals of the two young men, Dunstan and Chalmers, took place yesterday at Windsor and Richmond, and were largely attended in both instances, though…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Monday.--The Mayor convened a meeting at the Town-hall to-day to take steps for raising funds for the relief of the sufferers by the disastrous floods which occurred in South…
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