FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2451, 13 June 1893, Page 2

FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.

SEBIOUS DAMAGE. LOSS OF LIFE (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) BRISBANE, Jane 11. Six inches of rain has fallen in 24 hoars and floods are anticipated at Ipswich. BRISBANE, Jane 12. Part of Ipswich is under water, and Goodna and other places in the valley of the Brisbane river are more or lees aubmerged. At Gympie, riveraide cultivations have been sweepfc away. Disastrous floods have occurred at Maryborough and Bnndaberg, and the damage is estimated at many thousands of pounds. The principal sufferers are unfortunate farmers, who wero almost \ ruined by February floods. A man named Howell was drowned while rescuing a black boy, and a line repairer also perished noar Maryborough-. A considerable portion of South Brisbane is under water. The river is now receding. The Columbia was the only mine flooded at Gympie. BRISBANE, June 13. The floods have drowned 2000 sheep on the Juntbour Btation. A man named Goodwin was drowned near the city. The schooner Ela has sunk at Maryborough, having been damaged by the floods. SYDNEY, Jane 18. The whole business portion of South Grafton is submerged, and the river is a till, rising. The damage to farmers is not very serious, as but little crops are in the ground. People ia Morpeth are suffering almost as severely as daring the March floods-