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BOURKE, Tuesday, 8.30 p.m.--Our spirits have been in a fluctuating condition to-day. Last night we went to bed with the assurance of the gauge record that the river, or rather the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A letter has been received by the Minister for Works from Mr. George Gordon, C.E., of Melbourne, in which he says that he has received all the information he requires in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.--A thunderstorm, accompanied with heavy rain, passed over the city during luncheon hour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MAITLAND, Thursday.-Considerable progress is now being made in raising the embankments to keep out the floods in Mail land. At the present moment forty drays are at work drawing earth to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BOURKE, Wednesday, 12.30.-The Commissioners, accompanied by the local Inspector of Police, are now rowing round the town on a tour of inspection. At half-past 1 o'clock they leave…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The most important news to-day is that the flood shows signs of abating. The fall up to 9 o'clock to-night was half an inch. It is thought, however, that the streets will be navigable by boats for another week,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →From a private letter received in Sydney this morning we learn with regret that Messrs. Charles and Hurtle Fisher, the well-known squatters, have lost, on their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The special commissioners, accompanied by Messrs. Waddel and Willis, the Mayor, the police magistrate, aldermen, and other prominent gentlemen, paid a visit of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NOTE "A" Highest portion of embankment holding greatest depth of water. Private embankments made owners cost this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OXLEY-STREET, SHOWING POST-OFFICE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. Sir,--As arrangements are being made to call a meeting for the purpose of initiating a fund to aid the people of the Bourke district who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LlSMORR, Thursday.--Exceptionally heavy rain felt last night, 26lin. being recorded, The streets in every direction were flooded, the grains being unable to carry away the water,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The vestibule of the Town Hall was packed last evening with a sympathetic audience of ladies and gentlemen, who assembled in response to the public meeting convened by Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MAITLAND, Thursday.-Considerable progress is now being made in raising the embankments to keep out the floods in Maitland. At the pr[?]nt moment forty drays are at work drawing earth to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BOURKE, Thursday.-After having been rowed all about the town and seen the full effects of the floods, the Special Commissioners left on Wednesday at 2 o'clock on a visit to the refugees'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—About 68 years gone by, being then not over 12 years of age, I left Sydney for Patriok's Plains, on the Hunter River, in charge of six convicts, to take possession of land to farm for my employer, at a salary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In response to an influentially-signed requisition, a public meeting, convened by the Mayor of Sydney (Alderman Burdekin), was held in the Town Hall last night. The object of the gathering was to take steps…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Matters here in connection with the flood are gradually becoming less exciting. It is now a question of routine work more than anything else. Interest centres in the railway station. I was up at 5 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE weekly meeting of the Trades and Labor Council was held last night, when the president, Mr. P. J. Brennan, occupied the chair. The following societies were…
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