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The floods have now swept down the Murrumhidgee and inundated Wagga, where the inhabitants engaged in a desperate battle with the waters. Queanbeyan bas been left like a ruined city, half…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After consulting the Government .Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, and ascertaining the districts In which interruption of communications seemed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Only those who know what it means to watch the waters slowly, yet with devastating certainty, creeping onward and upward towards the spot that had ever yet…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Pittwater Motor Company tells of the splendid manner in which their fleet of International 'buses stood up to the heavy task of transporting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Murrumbidgee commenced to rise this morning, and has risen at the rate of about a foot an hour, being now over sixteen feet, whilst last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In a message to Senator Pearce, the chairman of the Canberra Commission refers to the floods on Wednesday night. He says one life was lost. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There were fewer postponements in country polls than was anticipated, in view of the severe floods in some parts of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is believed that six men have been drowned since the flood started, three at Queanbeyan, and three in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A rainstorm, in places rivalling in intensity the torrential downpours of February, broke over the city and suburbs about 9 o'clock on Friday night, and continued through the early…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Three striking pictures of the Roods at Wagga. Top: The corner of Kincaid and Fitzmourice streets, where the river first broke its banks to four [?] the town proper. Centre: Fitzmaurice-street, the main street, looking north…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MR. MARES [?] the following warning to shipping to-day:— There are suspicions of the development of storms conditions on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A stormy voyage to and from Norfolk Island was experienced by the cable ship Iris, which returned to Auckland yesterday. The vessel left…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An interesting position has arisen in connection with the postponement of the elections in certain country electorates,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Prime Minister has not yet heard exactly what happened to Canberra during the floods. [?] so to-day when asked what…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Owing to the floods, there were a number of postponements. The Chief Electoral Officer (Mr. Harkness) was officially notified by the Returning Officer for Murray,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fitzmaurice-street, the chief business avenue of wagga, where extensive damage was sustained by business houses. The flood entered the cellars and ground floor of the Commercial Hotel, opposite the main polling booth…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The floods—the most devastating in the history of the Murrumbidgee —are subsiding slowly at Wagga, but a great volume of water is coming downstream at Narrandera where another inundation is threatened. On the upper reaches of the river and its tributaries, the damage has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Heavy rain has caused further floods in the country. The rivers are running bank high. Considerable damage has been done to roads. All…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is possible that the floor around Canberra will mean alterations in the plans of building the Federal capital, but to what extent is not yet known…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Upon the tales of splendid heroism which have arisen around the tragedy of the floods a blot has been cast…
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