THE FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2900, 16 February 1893, Page 2

THE FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BRMBAms, February 15. The municipal valuation of the loss by the floods in No. 1 ward, South Brisbane, is £24,000. Ninety-four houses were destroyed, and twenty damaged. i The schooner Daphne, bound from Sydney to ftungeness, capsized in Wide Bay, and out of the crew of seven, only one was saved. After being twelve hours in the water he managed to reaoh shore. London, February to; The Colonial Institute has sent a message of sympathy to Queensland,

Auckland, February 15. ° Contributions amounting to £360 me* - cabled to-day trom Auckland- citizen* to ;« Brisbane, for the Queensland relief funds* " Subscriptions are coming in freely. The amount collected up to the present is three hundred and sixty pound*. Wakgandi, February 15. TheHonß. Seddon has received the following wire to-day from the Union Company—" Hon R. Seddon, Wanganui, —We offered to carry .300 tons free to Sydney per Hauroto. Papers publish 100 tons. Probably qur telegram was misread—James Mills, Dunedin.'? Mr Seddon iufornis the "Chronicle" that Government will arrange to send on every* thing free of charge from Sydney to Brisbane. A meeting of residents, called by the mayor, is to be held to-day tq consider, measures qf relief for the Queensland sufferers, and a committee has been ap* pointed to canvass the town and district. Wklungton, February 16. Mr Jackson, Mayor, of Wangsnui, Wired the Government that the settlers on the coast are desirous of sending a barquontine with 200 tons produce to Brisbane, and have asked the Government to pay the freight—2ss per ton, Government have Agreed, Chbistchurch, February 15." The Mayor has decided, Woonftequenps of tho news has flow arri? v d froijg Queensland, to convene a meeting oq i Friday evening to organise a rilwf fund.