AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.
A MAN DROWNED. " ■' ar TELECiurn —frees association— coftmgiit. 1 ■ ' Sydnsy, March 16. f ; 'Tamworth -is under- water.', It. is the greatest flood for ,25 -years.; Stock, it is feared, has 'perished in large numbers 'on l'ow-lying paddocks. • ~ / Brisbane, March .16. . Constable Murtagh was drowned-' at Fortitude .Valley while, trying to rescue 'a horse; from'the flood waters. •■..( '■ .. STOCK IN DANGER. (Rec. March 17, ,1.8 a.m.)-, -.v - '. - ; Sydney, March 16. ' Communication in Queensland is dislocated .through tho floods.' Threo miles of telegraph linos havo been washed away. , Thousands of sheep "and catt-lo are surrounded by ' flood: water; £t..Boggari, tho .downpour is, tho heaviest kno.wn for sixty years.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 148, 17 March 1908, Page 7
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107AUSTRALIAN FLOODS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 148, 17 March 1908, Page 7
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