AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20644, 16 February 1929, Page 14

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

CLOUDBURST AT, DURIE, THE COUNTRY SUBMERGED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ' SYDNEY, February 15. A Tamworth message states that the cloudburst at Durie submerged the country several feet, levelling fences and scouring the railway line, many rails being suspended in raid-air. Wheat stacks were severely damaged, the two bottom layers being under water. The trains are still held up.

ACTING JUDGE APPOINTED. SYDNEY, February 15, Mr Edward Milner Stephen, a well-known-Sydney barrister, has been appointed Acting Judge of the State Supreme Court during the Chief Justice’s (Mr Justice Street.) absence on holiday. RECURRENCE OF HEAVY RAIN. WHEAT BELTS AFFECTED. ■' « SYDNEY, February 15. (Received Feb. 15., at 11.50 p.m.) A recurrence of the heavy rain on the north coast is again causing apprehension in the hnaize districts. The upper Hunter River was up six inches yesterday. It is still raining and the south coast towns are now experiencing floods, while the rain is also penetrating the wheat belts. Advice has been, received that floods arc occurring in ' Gippsland, Victoria.

TWO HAWKERS DROWNED. CROSSING A SWOLLEN CREEK. SYDNEY, February 15. (Received Feb. 15, at 10 p.m.) • Two Syrian hawkers, who were crossing a swollen creek near Port Macquarie, on the north coast, were drowned to-day, their motor lorry being washed away. The body of one of the flood victims earlier in the week, John Coulton, was recovered from snags to-day.

BAIN IN SYDNEY. TENTH SUCCESSIVE DAY. SYDNEY, February 13. (Received Feb. 15, at 10 p.m.) Yesterday, was Sydney’s tenth successive wet day, when nearly two inches fell, the total being ten inches since February 4.