Flood Relief Fund. Meeting at Alexandria
A MEETING of the ratepayers of Alexandria was held last evening in the local town hall to express sympathy with, and to render practical assistance to, those who have…
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Flood Relief Fund
THE Central Sydney Committee have to-day wired money to Walgett, Louth, and Brewarrina for the immediate relief of those rendered destitute…
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The Railway Commissioners yesterday received a telegram from Bourke saying that the morning's mails were delivered at a quarter to 10. The water had receded 3in. in the previous 24…
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WILCANNIA, Thursday. -- The river here is now up 35ft. 6in., having risen 3in. since yesterday, and is still rising slowly, The water is up to the embankment, which is a substantial…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- The continuous rainy weather is doing great damage to the roads and streets. A great part of the suburbs adjoining Newcastle are under water. In some…
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IN connection with the floods at Walgett it was shown at a meeting of residents on Wednesday that great destruction of property has taken place. One selector lost 13,000 sheep. The river…
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WAGGA, Saturday.-At a public meeting held in the town hall, on Friday night, for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the sufferers owing to the recent floods on the Darling River…
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A large meeting of the residents was held at the School of Arts last night, Mr. Vaughan, J.P., in the chair, to consider the serious losses and destitute condition of many of the sufferers by the recent disastrous…
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The flood water is subsiding fast. The damage to the town is not so great as was anticipated. Donnelly's coach from Byrock, with Friday's letters, arrived yesterday after a great struggle. The loss of…
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Nearly 400 men have been employed repairing the railway line at Bourke and trains can now run another two miles of the town. The ban fallen about two feet and patches…
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THE Central Sydney Committee have to-day wired money to Walgett, Louth, and Brewarrina for the immediate relief of those rendered destitute…
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When POPE wrote that partial evil meant universal good he gave expression if not to a truism at least to a sentiment which as human knowledge of the…
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The Railway Commissioners propose to visit Bourke, so that a personal inspection may be made of the railway embankment and a decision arrived at as to the beat means to adopt…
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WILCANNIA, Friday.--The river is now nearly stationary, and unless the paroo, which is reported coming down a banker, gets into the Darling before the flood waters commence to…
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By way of practical expression of the great sympathy which is generally felt for the inhabitants of Bourke and other places who have suffered so severely through the late floods, endeaveur is being m[?]de to organise…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Floods in the West. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Wilcannia
The river is rising very slowly. The ga[?]ge this morning showed a rise of an inch and a half for 24 hours. It has risen about [?]in. to-day. The steamer Emily Jane returned from Murtreo to-night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Darling Flood. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—As the result of a motion adopted at the last meeting of the Brewarrina Progress Committee, I have to ask space, on behalf of that body, for a few lines upon the above subject as far as it conc[?]rns this locality…
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THE benefit at Her Majesty's Theatre, to which all the theatrical artists of Sydney generously contributed their services, and at which nearly £400 was raised for the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Floods in the Darling. Bourke, Brewarrina, Walgett. Waters Subsiding. Spreading at Wilcannia. Damage on the Culgoa
BOURKE, May 1.—With the Special Commissioners and the two active members for the district in Sydney, there remains nothing of any moment to be chronicled. Affairs generally will be…
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BOURKE, Wednesday.—Through, the assiduous efforts of the Railway Department the line has been brought within a distance of two miles from the town, and…
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