Queensland Floods. Several Towns Inundated
Reports have been received of a number of mishaps and damage done in certain parts of Queensland as a result of the heavy rains in that State. At Rockhampton on Monday the…
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Reports have been received of a number of mishaps and damage done in certain parts of Queensland as a result of the heavy rains in that State. At Rockhampton on Monday the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reports from Rockhampton state that all railway communication with the south and west is still interrupted. This evening the low-lying portions of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A telegram received by the Railway Commissioner from Rockhampton sums up the position thus:—"Further heavy rains all over the district since last report. Water over rails…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The postmaster at Boomi telegraphs that the mails despatched from that place by the Garah- Moree and Dolgelly-Moree mail routes on Friday and Saturday last respectively were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ROCKHAMPTON, Monday.--For the second time this year the city is in the throes of a flood. The present visitation is likely to prove more disastrous than its predecessor…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →GLEN INNES, Tuesday.--About 4 p.m. on Saturday the heaviest downpour of rain here for many years occurred. In 45 minutes 174 points were registered. Every stream overflowed its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A report from Cunnamulla, states that the Warrego River is still rising there slowly but steadily. Reports from Wypandra this afternoon state that the flood there is the highest…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Heavy rain fell at Rockbampton throughout Sunday night, but the weather yesterday was fine. The rainfall for March to date has totalled 20.44 inches. The…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A remarkable storm was experienced by Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co.'s steamer Guthrie, which returned to Sydney yesterday from the East. It was on the last voyage from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The brigantine Swordtish arrived to-day from Maryborough. Whilst ort Gloucester Heads on Thursday a sailor named Otto Kennln fell from the foroyard of the vessel into the water…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Monsignor Amette, Archbishop of Paris, has received a letter from the Lord Mayor of London, enclosing a cheque for 25,000 francs towards the fund which the…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →The Bullarah mailman, who was due at Millie at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday last arrived at 11.25 a.m. on Tuesday, over 72 hours late. Moomi Creek was in flood. The mailman from Boomi…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A wire from Charleville states that the Warrege River is rising there. Three streams of water are now running between the railway station and the town, and several people…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The postal authorities have advised the following delays by the recent floods:-- The Bullarah mailman, who was due at Mhlie at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Island steamer Atua yesterday brought news of floods in Fiji. In the Labasa district rather serious damage was done. The rain began to fall steadily towards the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CHARLEVILLE, Wednesday Evening.--Three musterers who were caught by flood waters on Dillalah Station yesternight took to trees. One of them(Frederick Brushaber) dropped off. He…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"And while the Seine rose and burst over its banks, Paris, brave and tranquil, defended itself gaily in the true French way, with a smile on its lips." Madame Yvonne Sarcey, in an article…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →HEAVY rain fell at Murwillumbah on Wedsday night and Thurstay morning, .the [?] for 24 hours being 185 points, making the [?] rainfall [?] the beginning of the year…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The recent rains in the north-western portion of New South Wales and southern parts of Queensland, have covered much damage, and the flood waters have, not, yet subsided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Friday.—The floods in the central and south-western districts are assuming a serious aspect. The central railway in the Emerald district is blocked at several places…
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