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Supplementary to our illustrations of the floods in Walgett published last week we now give a view of a large hotel in the principal street which was kept perfectly dry during the inundation by…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →WILCANNAI, Saturday.-The quantity of back water coming into the Darling again by the Paroo River Channel is much higher than it was in the 1879 flood. In the 1879 flood it took about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BINGERA, Monday.-A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held here on Saturday in connection with the Floods Relief Fund. The Mayor made an earnest appeal for assistance, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting, for the purpose of expressing sympathy with and devising means to assist the sufferers from the floods in the Durling, was held at the Town Hall, Waggs, yesterday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—The following correspondence has passed between Cardinal Moran and the w[?]ter. I am, &c., W. N. WILLIS. "Sydney, May 6, 18[?]0…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The river has fallen 1ft. 4in., and is now falling at the rate of 1[?]in. every 24 hours. The streets are in a terrible state. The loose mud washed into the gutters makes regular bog-holes. The weather is now fine,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of the Flood Relief committee was held this afternoon; the Hon. W. Walker presided, and representatives from all parts of the district were present. The treasurer announced that there was an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YASS, Tuesday. -- Canon Faunce, at the request of the central committee, has undertaken to collect subscriptions for the New South Wales Relief Fund. Yass is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a meeting of the Hawkesbury Flood Relief Committee yesterday afternoon it was elicited that L437 had been received from the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WILCANNIA, Monday.--The river is nearly stationary this evening, but on account of the great body of water between here and Brewarrina the flood is expected to fall very slowly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WALGETT, May 12.-A public meeting was held here last Wednesday relative to the floods; and, on a letter being read from the Central Belief Committee, Sydney, by the chairman (Mr. C. N…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Many families are daily returning to Bourke and re-taking possession of their homes, which are damp and dirty. None are allowed to return by rail without a special permit. The streets are beginning to resume…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The expedition that was despatched to the flooded Culgoa district returned last night. Town affairs are livening up considerably, for which we may thank the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WALGETT, Tuesday. -- A meeting of the local progress committee was held in the School of Arts last night, Mr. Vaughan, J.P., presiding. Reference was made at length by various…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the floods of Bourke, whose report was tabled on Wednesday evening in the Assembly, is of a most comprehensive character, and details the amount…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The report of the board, consisting of Messrs. Edmund Fosbery, Whittingdale Johnson, and Stephen E. Perdriau, appointed to visit Bourke during the recent floods and investigate the state of affairs there,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This afternoon the Mayor received an intimation that a large number of men wished to interview him. He at once met them, and then the spokesman said:- "Mr. Mayor, there are, as you see, a large number…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The river is rising at the rate of three quarters of an inch daily. The mam embankment has had to be extended from Reld-street to Woore-street, and was completed just in time to stop the water. On one or two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- A public meeting, with the object of expressing sympathy for and extending aid to sufferers by the recent floods throughout the colony, was to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GUNNEDAH, Thursday. -- A public meeting will be held in the School of Arts on Monday next to express sympathy for the Bourke sufferers during the late disastrous…
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