DISASTROUS FLOODS IN VICTORIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9544, 22 June 1911, Page 5

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN VICTORIA.

MANY FARMERS RUINED

RIVER A MILE WIDE,

18l ELBOTBIC I'ELEQBarH-COPXBIQHT.I (PEB PRRHH AHBOniATION.) MELBOURNE, June 21. The floods caused numerous landslides and washaways, and railway communicartion is badly interrupted. Healesville is partly submerged, and .several residents vacated I heir houses. At Coralynn a resident took a horse .and somo cows into his house to save them .from drowning. Another settler shared dug dwelling for several days with thirty :P At Maldon a tramp camped near the .bank of a creek. He is missing, and his .effects wero found covered with mud and debris. . . •, At Warburton the river is over a mile wide, and a variety of properly is Iloatiing'down, Received June 22, 9.45 a.m. MELBOURNE, Juno 22. The rainfall since January is the highest .«vei' recorded for six months. " Thousands of acres aro flooded in the Nathalia district, and much crops destroyed. There is a sea of water round Katupua. and residents arc compelled to leave their houses. Many fanners are ruined. Boats wero sent to Shepparton to assist settlers. The waters are still spreading. The floods at Warburton are the most disastrous on record. At a funeral at Toe the eollin bearers walked through water above their waists to the hearse. The hears e got bogged andjhey were unable to extricate it, another vehicle 'having to be obtained.