LATER AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS IN THE HUNTER DISTRIOT. LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES FLOODED OUT. THOUSANDS OF SHEEP AND CATTLE DROWNED.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3962, 4 May 1870, Page 5

LATER AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS IN THE HUNTER DISTRIOT. LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES FLOODED OUT. THOUSANDS OF SHEEP AND CATTLE DROWNED.

MELBOURNE. April 21 : Attention is (being more generally directed to the depressed condition of mining matters. The Victorian Insurance Company's dividend ia £12,000, or equal to 1 £2 per snare. Satisfactory trials were, yesterday, made with fuse manufactured at Melbourne, which burned and exploded tinder water. An eight-hour procession passed through the streets, en route for the gardens, where the usual sports followed the commemorative anniversary of the association. Charles Mathews draws full houses. Three prisoners were flogged in the gaol. The Colonial Bank dividend is 8 per cent. April 22 : Flour, £11 5s. to £11 15s. maize, 4s. Id. to 4s. 3d. The Agricultura? Board awarded Dr. Macks, of South Aus tralia, the prize for th© essay on " Takeall," in cereals. The Castlemaine Bench have issued warrants against Dyer, who confessed to a murder in Victoria. The divers report that the ship 'Lightning' is more broken up than was at first supposed ; a second explosion was more successful, and a portion of the hull and some casks of tallow were sent up. April 23 : Lieutenant Panter goes home in the mail to bring out the 'Cerberus.' Malt, to arrive, has been sold at 9s. ; cornsacks, for exportation, sold at 10s. 6d. in bond ; candles, mixed brands, lOgd. Overlandletters between Melbourne and Sydney are to be only 2d. after the 1st May. Mr. Michie has been re. turned unopposed for Ballarat. April 25 : Maize : The market ia very bare ; 4s. 3d. to 4a. 4d. is asked. Arrived : ' Taxarua,' Bteamer, from N6W Zealand. The E.M.s. 'Geelong' sailed yesterday, and took 100,000oz. tgold >nd £33,000 in specie. A gentleman, named Richard Cooper, has been found dead >in Lygon-street, with bis akull fractured, The ' Josephine,' a coasting schooner, sank in the bay during a squall on Saturday. The crew were saved. The ' Orita,' from the South Seas, reports overhauling the stores left at the Auckland [slands. Those left by the 'Blanche' were In good order ; those left by the ' Victoria ' svere damp, and were replaced. The Rev. W, Taylor, the Baptist Minister, at Sandmrst, ia being tried for fraud as executor. Che gold returns show a yield of 300,000oz. ess than the yield of the previous year. Mr. SloKay, commercial traveller, was arrested n Melbourne to-day, charged with embezzlenent from Mr. Elliott, of Deniliquin. Caylor has been convicted of fraud, and renanded for sentence; a point has been ■eserved. The three men recently flogged ire suffering considerably. Mr. Pairlie'a tystem of railway is likely to he tried on ;he Yan Yean tramway. April 26 : Lieutenant Panter has been nstructed to inquire as to the practicability >£ bringing out the Cerberxis through, the ■Suez Canal. The sugar market ia fhm ; ;here is a fair demand. Sales of second tvhite crystals have been made at £38 10s. Mr. Lawrence reports that the • Lightning ' lias broken up, and ia ready for i*emoving. The Rev. Thomas Taylor, Baptist minster at Sandhurst convicted. Sentence fhe wreck of the ' Lightning ' is sufficiently broken up that all pieces will easily be taken isliore. Keiosineis firm, Wheat, 4s. 9§d. f^n accident occurred on the Sandndge Railway by an engine running into a passenger train ; but, fortunately, no person ,vas seriously hurt. An inquiry will be held ;o-day. A large fire took place at Ararat, lestroying two hotels aud seven stores.

ADELAIDE. April 21 : Mr. Whiting, a squatter, at ;he Barrier Ranges, started off overland to ;he Northern territory a number of horses, iattle, and sheep. He follows them himself . i a few days. Mr. Heller, the magician, is Irawing large houses at White's Rooms. Apiil 22 : Howe, formerly a, bootmaker n Hindley-street, shot himself this morning. 3-oode, the man injured during the late unmiployed disturbances, has withdrawn his :ase for damages against the Inspector, eaving it for the Government to settle the nattei*. A writ has been served on Mr. Blackmore, Secretary for Crown Lands, on sehalf of the Northern Territory Company, :or a return of their money. A private vessel advertised to start shortly for the Northern territory, and afterwards will trade between there and Timor, and other Dutch settlements. The 'B. Aymer' sailed yesterday cor San Erancisco, with. 160 German and Irish colonists. April 23 : Considerable interest is called forth by the proposition for an overland belegraph to Port Darwin, in connection with Captain Osborne's scheme. April 25 : Advices from Calcutta state that the Viceroy so highly approves of the flour sent by the 'Jane Bell,' that he has ordered a supply for private use io be sent by the 'Simla.' Toda's report on Commander Osborne's scheme is published. He recommends an overland line from Port Augusta to Port Darwin, provided the company guarantee to land the cable at the latter port. Queensland is to be permitted to join at or near the Eoper. Government have adopted the report, and have communicated their decision to -Commander Osborne and the Colonial Secretary. Corn market very firm, 5s. 3d. offering, but no sellers. April 26 : Sir J. Fergusson is expected in Adelaide next week. Dr. Scomburgh proposes to establish at Port Darwin an experimental nursery for tropical commercial plants. Gold has been found in ballast brought by the 'Kohinoor' from the Northern Territory. Mr. Addison, landlord of the Southern Cross Hotel, was found dead in his bed this morning. Sales of wheat transpired at os. 3 id.

HOBART TOWN. April 22 : Sir James Fergusson leavea on Monday for Melbourne, en route for Sydney. April 23 : Sir James Ferguason is suffering from neuralgia, consequent upon the ascent of Mount Wellington.

WEST MAITLAND. April 23 : Heavy rain again ; continuance likely ; river risen six feet. April 24 : Another heavy flood is impending ; the river has risen 26 feet, and is rising one foot per hour. April 25 : The river is 32 feet 3 inches at the Belmore Bridge, and is still rising. Numbers of drowned sheep and some horses are floating down the river. High-street is covered in many places. The river is 35 feet high at Belmore Bridge, and ia still rising. The embankment at Duke's ■waterworks is gone, and the -water is rushing through the Northumberland Hotel ; visitors have all left. High-street is deeply flooded, and almost impassable. This flood is considerably higher than that of 1857. An immense extent of country is inundated. Hundreds of families are flooded out, and the usual places of refuge are opened for the relief of the distressed. A great number of sheep and pigs are coming down the river. It is reported that live lives have been lost at Aberdeen. Singleton ia under water. Business i3 almost entirely suspended, many of the shops in East and West Maitland beino- shut. Railway communication further than East Maibland is interrupted. April 26 : The river has fallen about four inches since 1 o'clock this morning. There is a rapid current. 2 p.m. : The river is now 33 feet 4 inches, and is falling a little. Several cottages have been swept away, near the Court-house, in front of the Nortuumber- ! land Hotel, and at the Horseshoe JSend. [ The distress is fearful. 8 p.m. : The river is I now falling one inch per hour. The bank3 of the river in Hign-atreet are falling in. Youdale's photographic gallery, and the

rge wa '-tank in front, hare gone into the ver. A T o lives reported as lost. The Durt '10 ;; is gradually going. 10.3'Jp.xn. : he [C jv. !> house is pai tially washed away ; le rein i.niug walla will probably follow he cotL ige adjoining it i<3 gone, aud a iwei nil current pours past the JSTorthumberndllot'l. S°mpilUstreet is destroyed in iany sj>ots. Comtnuuiration with Oakamplon Road is cut oft. Evans's L > 'se and ,ore in Horseshoe Bend are gone. The til way embankment near High-street is pparently washed away for a, distance of 20 arda. 11pm.: Tlie river has fallen about 5 inches, and is falling an inch per hour.

GUNNEDAH. April 26 : The river commenced rising on unday morning, and by 12 o'clock on Monay night ifc had rison ov r 50 feet. Every ouae in the main street inundated, and the had to take refuge on the hills. To lives were lost, and the flood is gradually ubsiding. Two flocks of sheep were irowned near Breeza on Sunday last.

SINGLETON. April 24 : The river has risen to 43 feet ibove the usual level, and is still rising. Che lower part of the town is submerged. Chere are three feet of water in Mr. Leslie's, Che river is now 43 feet above the usual ©vel. April 25 : The highest flood ever witnessed ay a white man is now subsiding — it having just receded a foot. The people did not ippear to become apprehensive \mtil about dark on Sunday, when the water broke over in the higher parts of John-street. During the night the excitement was veiy great ; by daylight there were not moie than seven or eight houses out of water. No lives are as yet reported as lost, although two or three families are believed to be on the roofs of their houses. The destruction of property, especially in perishable stores and provisions, is reported to be very extensive.

MORPETII. April 24 : The greater part of Narrowgut is under water. The greater part of Phcenix Park is under water. April 25: Great distress prevails, and busiuess is suspended. April 26 : The river at 6 a.m. v/as 15 feet 8 inches above high-water mark, and at 10 ' a.m. 15 feet 10 inched ; at noon it was stationary. River now within five inches of 1867 flood, and rising slowly.

MURRURUNDI. April 25 : A fearful flood has occurred here, which reached a high point on Sunday morning at 1 o'clock. Mr. Newman, solicitor, abandoned hia house on Saturday night. Dr. Richards and farailj' took refuge at Dr. Gordon's, whose hou3e was far above the highest flood over known. At 2 o'clock, Dr. Gordon and seven young children were hunted out iu their nightdresses with Dr. Ttieharda'a family ; the wind howling, the water roaring, and the screaming of people, caused a fcfearful scene. Mr. iNewman has | lost everything ; some of his furniture was picked up miles away destroyed. Mr. Britton, his wife, and 13 persons were on the roof of their house all night, the water within four feet of them. The bridges and culverts jjare swept away, |and, if the flood continues, the telegraph office and house and half the town must go. We are all in trouble and misery. Tiiis is a fearful catastrophe, and a losa to this place.

SCONE. Aptil25: The highest floods known took place yesterday ; five inches of rain fell on ni_ht. The water ii one foot i deeper than during the flood of 1857, causing great destitution. There 13 one foot of water in the Court-house. The roads are mnuh injured, and numbers of the culvert -s are impassable. Boyle'a Inn at Holkliam ia flooded. This is caused by the railway embankment. 2,000 sheep were drowned at Aberdeen, with numbers of cattle. One of the bridge cylinders has shifted.

WINDSOE. April 25 : River riseiv about eighteen feet above usual level ; still rising slowly. Low lands at South Creek under water.

GOULBrRN. April 2G : Highest flood for twenty years, excepting that of 1 SGI. Still rising Perfect sea running just below office, stretching a mile and a-half. Rivci risen 25 ieet. Easterly gale and pouring rain. April 22 : The are the entries for the Southern j Jockey Club :—Handicap and the Maiden Plate— Pyrrhus the First, Orlando, Mudgekewis. Country Handicap — Mudgekewis, Whalebone, Itinaldo, Uabba, Statesman, Pyrrhus the First, Orlando, Jamaica. Great Southern Handicap — Coinet, Kaiser, Uabba, Stumpy, Pyrrhua the Fhst, New Chum Jockey Club Handicap— Comefc, Independent, Kaiser, Uabba, Stumpy, Nuge Wasp, Jamaica The "Wollondilly and Milwaree Rivers are riding ; it is now raining. '

MUSWELLBROOK. April 25 : Water at Denmaa five feet lusher than 1857 Hood. Seven lives Io^fc. Great many slab houses washed away. Some bodies recovered. Mr. Gerson's stock has been lost and destroyed by the flood.

NEWCASTLE. April 26 : Traffic stopped beyond He<chani. "Wa er not commenced to recede 3 et at Maitl land. Rising fast iu the Hexham swamps. Mails will, if possible, be got tkroiu'h. by trolly boat, &c.

PENRITH. April 2G : The Nepean is now higher than it has been all through the recent rain, aucl is risiug at the rate of two feet per hour. I fc is raining in torrents, and there is every appearance of a very heavy flood before morning if the rain contiimes. WAGGA WAGGA. April 26 : Floods inevitable. The river is now 29 feet above summer level, and still risiug. The rain is falling heavy and constant. All preparations, in anticipation of a very heavy flood, are in progress. Our mails are interrupted in their progress.

ROCKHAMPTOJST. April 22 ; Alderman L Davies has been committed for trial cm a charge of murdermoliia wife ; he caine home di-unk and beat "her with a thick stick. The medical evidence tends to the conclusion that death was not caused by a particular blow, but through the shock to the nervous system. The prisoner made fno concealment. When asked if he had any statement to- make ho became agitated, could not speak, and fell back in the dock ; his wife was not a temperatewoman. Davies held a respectable position, and this act of his has caused much surpme. "

YOUNG. April 21 : The Races.— The Burrrowa Turf Club Raee3 — Handicap — Aruudel, 1 ; Snowdrift, 2 ; Ely, 3. A splendid race. Members' Plate— Kaffir, 1 ; Paris, 2 ; Hector, 3 Consolation Stakes— Pasha, 1 ; Miss "N asp 2 ; Silvertail, 3. Mickey Free was leading for three-quarters of a mile, when he fell— the jockey was not hm-fc. Forced Handicap —Pasha, 1 ; Silverstain, 2 ; Lady Cassandra, llus eaded the meeting, which has been carried out very satisfactorily.

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