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Sir,—In a paper read before the Royal Society in December, 1884, and at other times through your columns, I have pointed out that the progress of settlement in the western districts of New South Wales and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. A. Warden, secretary of the Waggamba Marsupial Board, Goondiwindi, states that owing to the late heavy floods the loss of stock in that district has been enormous. On Welltown station alone about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The floods here have now assumed a truly alarming and positively dangerous aspect, and the gravest fears are entertained for the safety of the town and the inhabitants…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the past fortnight the Sydney daily papers have contained telegrams concerning the disastrous floods in and around the townships of St. George (Q.), Mogil…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BOURKE, Saturday. -- The River Darling ross 6in. last night, being now 39ft. 9in. high and still rising. Great anxiety is felt in town. Brewarrina is half under water and the flood is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Sunday. -- In communicating with the inspector of stock the secretary of the Marsupial Board at Goondiwindi states that the losses by flood have been very heavy in that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir, -- I note by your paper of this morning that the river gauge at Bourke is still under 40ft. Can the residents of that place be aware that in 1864 the river level was 46ft. according…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The boisterous weather prevailing off the coast of New South Wales is having its effect on the shipping, coasting as well as intercolonial vessels being seriously delayed. One…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.-In Southern Queensland the Government Meteorologist looks for some what unsettled and showery weather east from the ranges. Similar conditions are indicated in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BOURKE, Monday.-At Mr. Deignam's Hall, on Sunday evening, a public meeting was held to consider the advisability of initiating a fund for the relief of those distressed by floods, and to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BOURKE, Tuesday.-Affairs in connection with the floods are homly becoming more serious, and slowly but very surely the encroaching water is creeping: up the embankment round the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bourke to-night is only threatened by floods: so far she is safe, but how long this safety may continue is a question. The town itself looks as if it is in a state of siege. Around nearly every brick building…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IN my papers of yesterday I left off at the boundary of Bundabareena and Dungalcar Stations, the latter, as before stated, the property of Mr. J. A. Campbell, carrying…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Dignan's Hall on Sunday night the largest and most enthusiastic mooting Bourke has over seen was held to consider the advisability of forming a fund to relieve…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mutters in connection with the flood have in no way abated, but the seriousness of the position has been considerably intensified. The river here is an enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. V. HEATON, OF SUSSEX-STREET, received the following telegram at noon to-day from his manager at Bourke:--"Every hone of embankment keeping back water. Think…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LISMORE, Monday.--The weather continue fine and the country is drying up rapidly. Grass is growing splendidly and if frost keeps off for a short time there will be plenty of feed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. E. Kelly, of Sydney, who was in Bourke at the time of the 1864 flood, informs [?]s that the exact height of the river then was not known, there being no means of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BREWARRINA, Monday, 6.55 p.m.--The river is again rising rapidly, having risen 12[?]. since Sunday morning. All the embankments, with three exceptions, have been swept away, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. E. C. Cracknell, Superintendent of Telegraphs, supplied as with the following received by him last night from the telegraph master at E[?]gonia:--"Corella station sends me word to…
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