The Floods Relief Fund
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- At a meeting of the floods relief committee to-day it was announced that the subscriptions received amounted to nearly £15,000. A…
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Our Victorian Letter. Serious Floods. Great Damage and Loss of Life. a Strange Escape. Reducing Salaries. Melbourne, August 4. More Floods
We are again, suffering from floods both in the country and, owing to the rise of the Yarra, around Melbourne. Serious floods are reported from various parts of the country, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Blanche's Doom. Chapter Xix.--mrs. Rivers' Masked Battery. Chapter Xx--before the Storm. Chapter Xxl--stay and Spare Not. Chapter Xxii.--maclean's Valet. Chapter Xxiil--the Secret of Mordaunt Waste. Chapter Xxiv.--a Ghostly Visit. Chapter Xv.--continued
"I picked him up promiscuous. I saw he was a most intelligent and agreeable fellow, and intelligent and agreeable fellows don't hang on every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in Victoria. (To the Editor of the "Australian Star.")
Sir,--For weeks past the Sydney papers have contained daily accounts of the sufferings and enormous losses caused to thousands of hard-working people in Victoria by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods in the Murray. The Water Still Rising. ALBURY
The Murray continues to rise, and this morning is 10ft. over summer level. A good deal of low-lying ground between Albury and Wodonga is under water, and the flats…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Damage to Railways by Floods
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A rough estimate of the damage done to the railway lines by the recent floods has been made by the department, and it is expected it will take…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Flood Waters. of the Murrumbidgee. Four Floods in Five Weeks. Viewing the Damage--Useless Bridges --Sad Case of Drowning--Useless Expenditure of Money. NARRANDERA
The late flood waters from the upper parts of the Murrumbidgee reached their full height yesterday, or about 4ft. lower than the first big flood on June 2 last. This is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Industry in a Gale
The steamer Industry had a very stormy passage across to New Zealand. A report to hand says:-- She left Newcastle on Saturday, July 25, and next day a gale from the south-south-east, with high sea and fierce blinding rain squalls, was met. The vessel began to ship large quantities of water, huge green…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Hunter Floods. Opinion of Mr. Darley
THE question of how to deal with the floods which occasionally do so much damage to property on the Hunter, in the neighborhood of Maitland, is one which has…
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The report of Mr. Darley,, the Engineer-in-Chief for Harbors and Rivers, on the prevention of floods on the Hunter River was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Gulf of Venice in a Gale
The Gulf of Venice, bound to Sydney, met with stormy weather in thr Indian Ocean. The steamer is due here in a few days from London. On July 28, in 42 S., 80 E., she fell in with a very heavy gale from north-north-east, ha[?]ling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in South Australia. a Station Under Water
ADELAIDE, Friday.-Starting news with regard to the great floods in the far north reached town this morning. The flood waters, which have been turning Cooper's Creek into an inland…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in the Far North. a Station under Water. A Manager Missing. ADELAIDE
Startling intelligence has just been received from the Sir north. Lake Hope country is all under water through the flooding of the Cooper aud other large…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Flood in the Lachlan
OXLEY, Friday.--The Lachlan has been rising fast all this week and several more families have had to leave their homes since Sunday Others are keeping the water out…
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ADELAIDE, Friday:--The Commissioner of Crown Lands has been furnished with a memorandum by the Surveyor-General to the effect that he has received reliable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Lancashire
LONDON, August 14.-Much damage has been done in Lancashire by floods caused by the rising of the river Stock, the waters swamping the cotton and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in Lancashire. London, Aug. 14
Floods are reported in Lancashire. In some places the water rose to such a height as to put out the mill fires. At Darwen damage to the amount of £14,000 has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The R.M.S. Mariposa. Terrific Gale
AUCKLAND, Monday.-The. R.M.S. Mariposa, which arrived here to-day from Sydney, experienced a terrific gale off North Cape. The decks were swept by huge waves, and the pilot-house…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mariposa in a Gale. the Decks Swept by Heavy Seas. Damage to the Vessel. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Auckland
The Mariposa arrived at 8.30 this morning, after a most tempestuous pnssage from Sydney. For two days the sun was invisible, and the exact position of the vessel, then in the vicinity of North…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Murrumbidgee in Flood. The Upper Lachlan Waters. Howling the Homeless. ALBURY
A report from the Lower Murrumbidgee to hand this morning states that the flood waters from the Upper Lachlan some few weeks back are only just reaching Oxley…
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