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Yesterday a correspondent wired from Bourke as follows: Bourke is in great danger. I have been working all night with many others, who are knocked up. Hundreds are working now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A representative of the Evening News attended at Government House this morning shortly after his Excellency's arrival from Bourke, and although very much pressed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BOURKE, Friday.-The flood waters still continue to rise about the environs of this devoted town; but still the work of protection goes on with unabated vigor, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WALGETT, Friday.-The floods are falling about 2in a day. Several islands are now visible, and most houses dry. The streets are in a terrible mess, and it is feared that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night was one of alarms. This morning was very little better, and this evening news may be to hand at any minute that the dams have given way, and that the water is flooding the town. It is being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The floods still present a truly serious aspect, and although last report was somewhat encouraging, unfortunately from what has subsequently transpired a repetition of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Dowel, Gormly, and Cullen, M's.L.A., with about 35 navvies, arrived at Bourke last night, having travelled the last six miles of the journey on a trolly, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bourke now appears to be in great danger, and a great number of people who have been working at the embankment are completely knocked up. Hundreds of people are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BOURKE, Thursday, 12.20 p.m.--The town is now in great danger, the water rising at a tremendous rate on the cast side, the embankment carrying 6 or 7 feet of water,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams have just reached us of the bursting of the embankment at Bourke about half-past four Friday afternoon. Of course the flood wan expected, but it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Chief Inspector of Stock and Secretory of the Marsupial Board, Queensland, states that the losses of stock have been very heavy in the Goon-diwindi district. Welltown Station lost 70,000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BOURKE, Friday, 7.15 p.m.-The crisis has come at last; for, at about half-past 4 o'clock this afternoon, the dam burst at the back of the hospital. In less than five miuutes' time a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WALGETT, Friday.-The floods are falling about 2in a day. Several islands are now visible, and most houses dry. The streets are in a terrible mess, and it is feared that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BOURSE, Friday.-The flood waters still continue to, rise about the environs of this devoted town; bat still the work of protection goes on with unabated vigor, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The gallant efforts made by the citizens of Bourke kee the water out of the town have proved in vain. The day was one of alarms, but matters had threatened so long that we had almost got used to them. The break…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. A. Warden, secretary of the Waggamba Marsupial Board, Goondiwindi, states that owing to the late heavy floods the low of stock in that district has been enormous. On Welltown station alone about…
Continued on Trove, page 862 →The work of fighting the water is proceeding with energy to-day. The river is still rising, and the banks are being further heightened and strengthened. There have been one or two leakages, but…
Continued on Trove, page 861 →The Western people are passing through a great trial, which, however, would have been much more disastrous it it had come without warning. During the last fortnight it has been known that the Darling…
Continued on Trove, page 851 →IN view of the fact that Mr. M'Millan has so ably coped with the demand for assistance necessitated by the unprecedented damage caused by the flood waters in the far West, the control of relief…
Continued on Trove, page 871 →Bourke is in a critical position; the river has steadily risen at the rate of about six inches per day; business has been suspended, and merchants, bankers, and citizens of all…
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