NEW SOUTH WALES.
Sydney, Thursday.
The Seamen's Conference has decided to recommend that the branches in Victoria, New Sonth Wales, and Queensland to agitate (or an extension of the franchise to seamen on the lines of the beat points in the New Zealand and Sonth Auxtraiitm Acts.
The Newcastle miners' funds are exhausted, and the seoretary reports that after the payment of the strike allowance to-morrow nothing will be left.
Two coasting vessels, the schooner Philip Palfrey and the ketch Dewdrop, are reported missing.
There has been great destruction to property by the floods in the Maitland district. Hallway communication ia still lnterrnpted. The Morpeth district! is one stretch of water for miles. Not a farm escaped inundation. A man named Corbatt was drowned The flood in the Manning river is the heaviest since 1876. Farms are submerged in all directions! but the water is now receding. Fifteen inches ot rain fell lv three days.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9897, 25 January 1895, Page 2
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