DESOLATION AND RUIN.
800,000 SHEEP DBOWNED. [Special to PaKBB Asbociation.J SYDNEY, Apbil 21. Bourke is a scene of abject desolation and rain. The Government is sending a Special Commission to report on the position of affairs, and relieving funds are being opened throughout the Colony. j It is estimated that three hundred ! thousand sheep have been drowned in the Walgett district. The town of Louth, on the Darling sixty-five miles below Bourke, is surrounded by water. The residents have erected ; embankments. [Louth is on the direct overland stock ; track from Queensland to Victoria. There ; is railway communiaation with Bourke. | The district is a pastoral one. The popui lation of the township is very small.J I Received April 22; at 12.30 p.m.J SYDNEY,. Apeil 22. Destitution at Bourke. The water remains stationary at Bourke, and it is expected it will be three weeks before it commences to recede. Nine hundred women and children are living under canvas at North Bourke, where rations are served out daily. Many of them have been rendered destitute. North Bourke is now an island three miles square, and about 10ft above high waters
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6833, 22 April 1890, Page 3
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187DESOLATION AND RUIN. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6833, 22 April 1890, Page 3
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