STOIM AND FLOOD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4593, 15 March 1893, Page 4

STOIM AND FLOOD.

• - • « . ' ■■ [Special to Prkss Association/! . LONDON, March "14. The Queensland Relief Fund exceeds .£BOOO.

SYDNEY, March 14. The steamer Federal, which was driven ashore at Sfcobkton, near Newcastle* during the storm, has been floated off. .

! £Pbr Prbsb Absootation.] ' ; [ WELLINGTON, Mabch 14. ' A meeting convened by the Mayor was held to-night, to consider the beat way of helping sufferers by the floods in the town and country. It was decided to canvass for subscriptions, and, in addition to relieving the wants of thoße flooded, to pay them in money for their loss of furniture, &c. The tan track on the Hntt racecourse was destroyed by Saturday's flood. It will be replaced by a plough track. The coursa. which was under water, sustained no other damage. About one hundred and twenty guineas have been collected for the sufferers by the local flood. Captain Edwin predicts that another gale will be experienced here to-nighfe or to-morrow morning.

The respectable sum of £1881 16s lOd represents the total cash receipts obtained by the Central Committee when the lists closed, not including JBIIO collected in- the several Catholic churches, £50 sent direct to Queensland by the Orange institutions and £20 forwarded to Wellington by the railway employees. The total subscriptions raised in Christchurcb. may thus be reckoned at £2061 16s lOd in cash, and goods to the value of over £500. The Executive Committee meets to-morrow to make final arrangements. A most successful concert in aid of the Queensland Belief Fund was held on Friday evening in the Wakanni schoolroom, with very satisfactory results. About £10 was taken in aid of the fond. At the South Bakaia Boad Board meeting a circular was received asking that steps might be taken to call a meeting and , see what could be done in the matter of helpingthe Queensland sufferers. The Chairman (Mr Lyttelton) intimated that the matter had already received attention, and that some £70 in cash and goods had been collected. Mr Secretan, of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, was receiving subscriptions and goodß, Which would be duly forwarded.