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The motion for the adjournment of the Assembly last evening was seized upon by hon. members to refer to the recent floods at Bourke and the railway disaster at Bathurst. During…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BOURNE, Thursday.--The town has been quiet to-day. Very few boats with keels can get about and the only ones seen now are flat-bottomed, People whose floors are now above…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Matters have new settled down to quietude, and most of the strangers have left the vicinity of Bourke. About 1000 free railway passes have been issued. The encampment at North Bourke reports all well…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—On behalf of the people of Bourke will you kindly allow me through your paper to thank the following firms for their generosity and practical sympathy in sending supplies to a distressed people:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Louisville, capital, chief city of Kentucky, with an area of 13 square miles and a waterfront of eight miles on the Ohio, was visited by a terrific cyclone on March 27, and the entire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ship Crummock Water, which arrived from Cardiff on Monday at Port Pirie with, a cargo of coke and railway iron, reports having experienced a severe gale on April 1st, during which seven men…
Continued on Trove, page 964 →London, April 26.—The floods in the United States are causing widespread loss and hardship. Five thousand miles of country in the State of Louisiana, are flooded, and 32,000 persons have…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →LONDON, Friday.-The steamer Victoria passed up the stream this morning with a full cargo of rations for Bourke. The river has fallen 3 1/2in since Sunday last. The dead stock along the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BOURKE, Friday.-A farther sum of £750 was wired on Thursday from Melbourne, in aid of the general distress caused by the flood. The contributions from that quarter have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following contributions have been received for the Flood Belief Fund:- Mr. T. B. Rolin, hon. sec. the General Flood Belief Fund of 1867,£1,200; Mr. J. F. Ellis Holt, £10 10s; Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A slight alteration has been made in the personnel of the local Relief Fund Committee, Mr. K. C. M'Kenzie having resigned, owing to his necessity to leave Bourke to permit him to recruit his health. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sir,—When told just now that "Mr. Bloxhum, of Bourke," had written you advocating the impounding of some, at least, of the water which is naw finding its way down the Darling, I could not, knowing thut…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Our Brewarrina correspondent telegraphed on Tuesday:—The flood waters are gradually receding, having fallen about 28in. The Narran waters are now about at their highest, and hopes are freely expressed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 983 →Matters in connection with the terrible hood at Bourke are becoming less exciting, but considerable interest is felt with regard to the fate of Wilcannia, at which place the flood warers are expected in about a…
Continued on Trove, page 983 →Mr. Bloxhara, of Bourke, by a letter in the Herald, has raised a voice of warning worthy of attention against the waste of that water which has wrought such mischief. What he proposes…
Continued on Trove, page 968 →On Thursday, the 24th ultimo, about 4 o'clock in the morning, the embankment which had been erected to preserve the town gave way, in spite of brave efforts to keep it intact, and in a very short time the town…
Continued on Trove, page 983 →All Sydney was thrown into a state of profound perturbation last Saturday night, when a late edition of the Star announced the following startling piece of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bourke is still in a pitiable state, though the flood water is steadily going down. The town is deserted, or almost so, boats still ply in the streets; and there is the unpleasant…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE following amounts have been subscribed towards the Darling River Floods Relief Fund:--L1200 from the general flood relief fund of 1867, by T. B. Rolin, hon. secretary;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is now a fortnight since the giant aqua invaded Bourke, and affairs have settled down into a species of "flood groove." As a matter of fact, people have become so…
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