AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 21 June 1911, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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(Received Jane 21, S> 50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 21

The Federal Tre&suie* estimate* th% year will end with a surplus of over a million

There Lave bees' further heavy rains. All the rivers in Eastern Gippsland are in high flood. The Goulburn river broke her banks in 1 several places and a wide area is submerged. Considerable damAge was occasioned in the lambo rivet valley. Much maize was ttestroyed along the Mitchell and other rivers. Stock were removed in time to prevent loss.

At Seymour some streets are under water. The police station is only reachable by boats. People having business at the Court house bad to utilise boats. A horse and cart belonging to a baker named Rereden at Maldon was fotuut in a creek Rereden is supposed to have been drowned. Two bridges over the Yaira at Warßurton were swept away. The river overflowed in some of the lowlying suburbs of Melbourne, and after reaching a height of twenty-two feet began to slowly fall, but as the water in the higher reaches will still come down a further rise is feared. :

ADELAIDE, June 21, Miss Monrer, a member of Gay Gordons Theatrical Company, has" been awarded £400 damages .for injuries received as the result of being knocked down by a motor car.