LATE CABLE. By Electric Telegraph .— Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Received I ebruary 28, at 1.15 a.m Stdsbt, February 27. Bubear the English sculler, now in Australia, has challenged Brown, the Clarence River oarsman, for LlOO aside. TheKempsey farmers' loss by floods amounts to L70,0Q0, chiefly by datuige to maize crop. Out west the snuon is the best experienced for 20 years. Water and grass are in abundance.
Washington, February 27. Nearly every building in the valley below Preccott Reservoir for a distance of 100 miles, was destroyed by the burst. Amongst the townships devastated are Wickeuberg , Seymour, and other villages. The dam was one of the largest in America. The flood resembled a wall of i water 50 feet high.
Vhsxna, February 27. The Noristi says the increase of the Austrian Army and the dispute about the payment of the Bulgarian indemnity, which was lately revired, will proroke Russia also to augment her force*.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6977, 28 February 1890, Page 2
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154LATE CABLE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6977, 28 February 1890, Page 2
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