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Those who have made the voyage from Cape Farewell to Cape Campbell, through that "silver streak" between the north and middle Islands of New Zealand, when Cook's Strait are in [?]ad humour, are not likely to forget their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WILCANNIA, Monday.— Mr. Goff, sub-inspector of police, reports that news has been received that a man named Fred Chambers was drowned on the morning of the 21st instant, while trying to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir, -- A report from Bourke in jour issue of yesterday conveys the gratifying intelligence that the residents of that place are returning to their homes. It tells also of the vast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILCANNIA, Monday. -- Heavy rains are reported all along the Paroo, 321 points having fallen at Goorimpa, 288 at Tongo and 72 at Wanaaring. The Paroo and Cuttaburra rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—I observe that very large sums of money are being collected in various places towards the relief of the Bourke residents, who suffered so disastrously from the recent inundation. Notwithstanding this, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. A. Bowman, M.L.A., B. Conlan, W. H. B. Piddington, and J. Chas. Fitzpatrick (hon. secretary of the Hawkesbury Flood Relief Fund), waited on the central committee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Mayor of this borough has convened a public meeting of residents of the district, to take place on Saturday night next, for the purpose of expressing practical sympathy with the sufferers by the late floods…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Central Police Court to-day a man named James Reardon was charged with having obtained the sum of L3 10s. from one George Robinson, the secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Central Committee of the Floods Relief Fund held its weekly meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. F. B. Boyce being in the chair. The Committee received a deputation from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain Phillips, of the, steamer Excelsior, has supplied [?] following particulars as to the state of affairs between Wilcannia and Bourke. The steamer left Wilcannia on the 25th instant, at which date the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The centrail committee of the Floods Relief Fund held its weekly meetine on Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. F. B. Boyco presided. The committee received a deputation from the Hawkesbury Flood Relief Fund,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The condition of St. James aud Ascension parishes, La., on April 25, was deplorable. In St. James's, in the neighborhood of the great Nita Crevasse, everything was flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WILCANNIA, Wednesday.--The river has now commenced to fall slowly, having apparently attained its maximum flood height, namely, 36ft. 7¾in. To-day's levels are :--Mungundi,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WENTWORTH, Thursday.-The first of the flood waters are expected here to-night. All the lowlying tenements from Menindie to Para are under water. The whole of the country between the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the New South Wales flood relief fund was held at the municipal council-chambers this evening, in aid of the movement to relieve the distress caused by the recent floods in the Hurling district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Friday.--The Bourke flood committee meet this afternoon for the purpose of settling their accounts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WINDSOR, Friday.--At a meeting of the local flood relief committee yesterday afternoon it was resolved to distribute the money in hand amongst those recommended for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ST. MARYS, Thursday.--A public meeting was held in the Protestant Hall on Tuesday night for the purpose of sympathising with and practically helping the people who have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Sweet are the uses of adversity" and "A man's gift maketh room for him and bringeth him before great men." So said the great preacher whom God had gifted with…
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