THE QUEENSLAND FLOODS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4571, 16 February 1893, Page 3

THE QUEENSLAND FLOODS.

fSPKCIAL TO PfiEBS ASSOCIATION.! LONDON, Feb. 14. The Colonial Institute ha 9 sent a message of sympathy to Queensland. ! LONDON, Fbb. 15. Sir J. P. Grarrick, Agent-General for Queensland, denies that there is any intention of raising a loan on account of the losses by floods. The Queensland Committee has cabled to Brisbane the sum of .81000 in aid of the sufferers by the floods.

BRISBANE, Fbb. 15. The Municipal valuation of the loss by the floods in ho. 1 Ward, South Brisbane, is £24,000. Ninety-four houses were destroyed, and twenty damaged.

[Per Pbess Association.] WANGANUI, Feb. 15. The Hon B. J. Seddon received the following wire today from the Union Steamship Company: — "Hon R. Seddon, Wanganui—We offered to carry 300 tons free to Sydney, per Hauroto. The papers published 100 tons. Probably our telegram was misread. — Jas. Mills, Dnnedin." Mr Seddon informs the Chronicle that the Government will arrange to send on everything free of charge from Sydney to Brisbane. A meeting of residents, called by the Mayor, was held to-day to consider measures for the relief of the Queensland sufferers, and a Committee was appointed to canvass the town and districts. WELLINGTON, Fbb. 15. Mr -Jackson, Mayor of Wanganui, has wired to the Government that the settlers on the coast wish to Bend a barquentine .' with 200 tons of flour and other produce ' to Brisbane, and asked if the 'Government will pay the freight of 25s per ton. The , Government has agreed to do so. Feb. 16. : The Government has arranged with the Railway Commissioners to carry produce contributed to Queensland free over all ' the lines of the Colony. Subscription : liats have been opened at the City Council. , The Evening Post also has obtained a large sum.

Yesterday afternoon a requisition asking that a public meeting should be called to consider the best means" of affording relief to the sufferers by the floods in Queensland, was signed by a number of members of the City Council, and submitted to the Mayor. At the Theatre last night, the Mayor announced that he had decided to call a meeting of citizens to be held in the Oddfellows' Hall to-morrow evening. As there is a meeting of the Trades and Labour Council on Saturday evening Mr Sandford will bring the requisition under the notice of the delegates, and ascertain what steps are deemed most advisable for enlisting the practical sympathy of all classes. The reaidente of the Borough of Rangiora will not be behind in showing practical sympathy for the families rendered homeless by the Brisbane floods. Yesterday the Mayor (Mr J. Sansom) and Councillors Blackett, Cone, Foster, Roberts, Keir and Jennings started on a canvassing tour through the Borough, and the monetary response met with was most gratifying, about £50 being collected. Those present at the meeting of the Master Bakers' Association of Chriatchurch last night subscribed one ton of best flour, to be forwarded at once for the relief of the sufferers. Mr J. T. Faville was authorised to receive subscriptions in money or kind to enlarge the donation from the trade as much as possible. A number of musical amateurs and Mr T. Crook have arranged to give an entertainment at the Theatre Royal next Thursday for the benefit of the Queens* land flood fund. Mr Crook tock the matter up heartily yesterday, and iv a few | hours found that he had the sympathies of everyone in the matter. His own share of the entertainment will be a display by lime - light of some of his exquisite photographic pictures, of which he has probably the best collection in Australasia. Among them there will be views of the locality in Queensland which has recently suffered so severely from the floods. This alone should make the lecture attractive, but it will be made doubly bo Bince the views will be explained by a gentleman of well-known ability as an elocutionist. Measrs H. Weir, A. Millar, A. Appleby and other leading vocalists , have volunteered to assist on the occasion, so that, apart from the object for which the funds are required, there will be a highly popular and pleasing entertainment provided. A meeting of the members of the Loyal Orange Institution is called for to-morrow evening, at the Orange Hall, to consider the beat means of alleviating the distress caused by the recent floods in Queensland. At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, held yesterday, the Manager was instructed to forward to the Mayor of Brisbane by the next steamer a bale of blankets and hosiery, to asßist the sufferers by the late flood. On Tuesday last at Kaiapoi a telegram was received by the Council from the Hon W. P. Eeeves, asking for aid on behalf of the sufferers in the late floods in Queensland, and it was unanimously resolved to open a list for subscriptions to be placed in the Council Chambers,, where aid will be received either in money or produce.