DISASTROUS FLOODS.
VISITATION IN QUEENSLAND
HEM ARK ABLE RAINFALL,
•Press Association--Kleclrio Telegraph —Copyright. Received Tuesday, 12.10 a.m. BRISBANE, Monday. The Fitzroy river at Rockhampton is iv high Hood. Sixteen niches ol ram has fallen in the present mouth, aud tliß low-lying parts of the town are inundated. Residents aro removing to higher ground. The wharves are covered, aud much damage has heeu dove to goods. The floods caused great destruction in the surronudiug districts ; severfil mining dams have baen swept away, .-aud the traiu service is disorganised, #id there are many wash-aways. The river Warrigo, at Augatella, : is a mile wide, aud is still rising. '.The township is largely under water.
At Mackay over a hundred inches of Tain has fallen sines the beginning of the year.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9632, 22 March 1910, Page 5
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127DISASTROUS FLOODS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9632, 22 March 1910, Page 5
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