THE BRISBANE FLOODS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 11, 18 March 1893, Page 254

THE BRISBANE FLOODS.

OUR pictures of the Hoods in Brisbane will not fail to be of interest to the New Zealand public, who

manifested such practical sympathy with the destitute inhabitants of the capital of Queensland These sketches which are from photographs taken specially for The Graphic on the spot, convey a vivid idea of the doleful state of affairs in Brisbane during the deluge, and help us to realise more clearly what we have already received very full information of in the Australian papers. Although Wellington has not escaped something more severe than the wetting of her feet by the recent Hoods in the Hutt river—she should thank her stars that she is not now standing on the site originally chosen—most of our New Zealand cities need have no fear of a watery visitation like that which Brisbane has been subjected to. The Empire City may be shaken some day to her foundations, and Auckland may have to pass through the fire of those peaceful looking volcanoes of hers, but it can never happen that either of the two will afford subjects for photographs similar to those Brisbane has given us in this issue. We may very safely predict that the youngest inhabitant of either of those cities of the hills, should he or she live to be as old as Methuselah, will never see his fellow citizens taking refuge on the house tops from the rising waters, or a gunboat stranded in the public park.