FLOODS IN VICTORIA.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE
V*Ui\»ted Press A asooiation. —Cppyrigh t.)
MELBOURNE, June 2'l
Further heavy rains have fallen, ami 41*1 the rivers in Eastern Gippsland nre in high floo'l. The GouiiM.m R.ver broke through its banks in several places, and a wide urea is\submerg:Kl. - . Considerable damage has been done in the Tambo River .Valley, and niuch maize has been destroyed. . Along the Mitchell and other rivers the stock was removed in time to prevent loss. At Seymour some of the streets are under water. The police-station is only reachable by boats, and the people.hal,'-' ing business at the Courthouse are utUisins boats. ' , A horse and cart belonging to a baker named Jlerden, at Maldon, wevo found in a creek. Rerden is supported to have been drowned. Two bridges over the Yarra ,at Warbarton were swept away, and the rivev overflowed some of t;he low-lyin<i suburbs in Melbourne, and after reaching a height of 22£ ft. began slowly to fall, but as the water on the higher reaches has still to come clown, a further rise is
feared
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12766, 22 June 1911, Page 5
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179FLOODS IN VICTORIA. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12766, 22 June 1911, Page 5
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