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The flood waters are now slowly subsiding, and some of the submerged streets are again appearing as dry land, though a large portion of the city and suburbs ia still under water. The East…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Queensland Floods Relief Fund amounts to £2000. The committee includes Sir G. Baden-Powell, Dr. Hale (formerly Bishop of Brisbane), Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday the subscriptions received by the Sydney branch amounted to about £250, but there has not yet been sufficient time to get returns from the large number of subscription-list sent to banks,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A strang flood is running in the river, but at Ballina the water is less by 22in. than the high spring tides in January. On Sunday night the dredge Alcides parted her meetings, but was brought up…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →News from different portions of the district shows that nearly the whole of the maize crop has been destroyed. The young cane planted this season has also suffered severly. Stock have escaped well…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The river has commenced to go down again, but heavy ram set in again this afternoon. A quantity of back water is still lying on the farms. BURRAGA, MONDAY…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It has been raining in torrents. 12in. have fallen since noon on Wednesday. The river is within 3ft. of the highest record. LATER…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—The Northern rivers are in flood, and already quantities of harvested wheat, sugarcane, and corn have been damaged by flood waters, and if, as it is feared, the worst has not been seen, further losses…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A report from Nymboida just to hand states that all bridges, with the exception of the big iron bridge at Nymboida, are washed away. Landslips have also occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Special sermons will be preached in the Free Church of England, Rockdale, next Sunday, and the offertory, both morning and evening, will be devoted to the relief of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The flood boat from Southgate, which came to town yesterday, brought word that in that rich district the destruction of crops was worse than in 1890, inasmuch as that in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mails are still very irregular owing to the floods, and we have been desired to mention that the dispatches from Sydney of Thursday and Friday last for South Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The continuous rains and consequent return of extreme hardship being experienced in and around Brisbane have added to the great necessity existing for further…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRAFTON, Monday, 3.45 p.m.--The river has now fallen to 14ft. The weather is cloudy, close, and like more rain. The water is off Prince-street to the centre of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, February 21.—The London committee of the Queensland Floods Belief Fund has received £3000, including £200 from Mr. W. K. D'Arcy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brisbane, Tuesday,—Beautiful weather in Brisbane to-day, the sun shining brightly; The water hoses are at work on the premises which were submerged, and on private dwellings. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the Assembly last night Mr. O. O. DANGAR, member for the Macleay, asked the Colonial Secretary, without notice, whether he would cause inquiry to be made as to the extent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The above sub-heading seems altogether out of place in a sporting letter, but the calamity which has befallen this lu[?] part of the northern colony within the past week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another morning of flood and rain as I look out of my hotel window into the greyness of the early light. Everything seems wet. The earth is soaked and the heavens contain an apparently…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rain ceased last night, and it is fine to-day, with a cool south-west wind blowing, and there is every appearance of the weather taking up. Water is still lying in the lower part of the town, but, although it…
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