AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Bay of Plenty Times, 24 April 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

SYDNEY/ April 2PAH the private embankments erected through tbe township of Bourke m preparation for the flood are now being built higher, and made as secure as possible! but it is fearecl .thjat before; the floada go down many teck buildings will collapse. The current of water round the corners ; and ibetwlen the houses will prove a terrible source of danger. The water is now to an ordinary man's waist all over the? town^ and Bourse is tn the nudst of a gteiat inland 'sea,' forty" niiles wide. Judging from the mass o^f-'w^tJßr pftss-» ing Brewarrina, Bourke ma'yj expej£ another two W^three feet. ( t j C *' Early tins m or nig tjje private embankments 'were be^fniiujf ] foHfaTT through and many buildings were collapsing. .■; a OK 7 ! The Po&tmaster-Oeneral pas detained'a parcel of valued at £5066. Mkaon tiad 1 assi'gried fte* diamonds and sent them tq M'iboufnel to a disUnond brokfer, by ;a ; defa^ltio^ insolverit in vßelgium, VThe 1 Belgian Cbnisul has iiideinriified government against liability,,. „ \\ I y^S ; - v SiDNfiT, April 22. / - Boturk^ ia the scene rof abject jdesolatibri and ruin. p-^verefWebt are sfindiiig, a special commisßtob^W report on the 'position of affairs, and relieYipg f ur^ds have been opened j^rpnghout tie Golony. It is estitouied tHt 300,000 elieep haye been didwnfed in the Walgetfc district, i The town of Louthi on the Darling, sixty-five miles below Bourk&,n% suasrounded by water.' v TBe residents have erected embankments. : . yt ■;/■■: i The witter is now stationary at Bourke, and it is expected that three weeks will haye dapsed before it recedes. - ' „ Nine hundred women and children are living! under canvas iri ISfocth^ Bourke. Baiioo«:are>ei?v*i4 o^it daily io many destitute farnilif& ! »^d i«»di- .: v ' : j.i/;l-- : ;> . North Bourke is now an isl^d. three miles square, and ten Jeet ab<jf 4 the water level of high waterr I The sculling race between Bubear, ex-Cbampion of Eoglaud 3 and Browjn of Clarence Biver, fo»« £&0 1 a-gilie, took pjaee on Paramatta Btv^r tof^ afternoon* Bubear fouled Browh^ who passed the post six lengths ahead* The race was awarded to B^ear on the foul, but the crowd hoMed bi» for his tactics. , * Two bodies of men have been found floating ciboutßotfpke. The water is atiaslfaUiag. ' .

It is estimated that tlie Bourke floods will cost Government alone one hundred thousand pounds. Melbourne, April 21. ! A youth, named Bennett, arrested in England on a charge of murder by shooting his ancle in revenge for an alleged assault on his mother, has been fpund.not guilty on the ground oi infinity. Melißouese, April 22. Me Derham, Postmaster^Qeneral of Victoria, is disinclined to accept the redaction in postage proposed by Mr Goscbeo. ? Bobabt, April 23. A man named Bes wick, and a child, died thr«e weeks ago at Campbelltown. Their deaths were supposed to have resulted from eating tinned fish. It has transpired that Mrs^ Beswick purchased rough on rats shortly before. The investigation now proceeding proves that the child died from arsenic poisoning, and the man from the same irritant poison. _____ Adelaide, April 22. Government are likely to oppose any alteration in the postage which may result in loss of revenue to the Colony. -