AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 732, 3 February 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.

THE BARWON AGAIN.

'RISING NOW ABOVJ) BOURSE. • By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Sydneyj February 2. ■Tho River Barwon (Barling) is rising, 1 and fears of • flood are. entertained at Bouike. V ~: v ". A SERIES .of' inundations;. -The behaviour of the Barwon (Darling) River and its tributaries-(the Namoi, and others) 'has been filling the Australian cablegrams for weeks, in the first place,' •Sjoat damagq , was -causcd by .the flooding' of the Namoi,; in ;the watershed of which' lie Quinhdi. and:-Tamworth, • and, v lower Gunnedah, Bogcabri, Narrabri, and. Wee Waa . (whioh latter places' suffered ; very., heavily).lower,- .where 'the Xsamoi: joins the. Barwon, Walgett appeared- to be in special danger," as . tho , nood . waters, left the . higher lands and advanced on the lower river, but, timely embankments having been-erected, Wal,go rnu a Pl^ arß so., far to have; escaped. Iheu came a new and sensational de? velopment in: the shape of the cyolone aad downpour - at Brewarrina; a town* ship on< the. Barwon,over -a; hundred miles ■, below-; Walgett. Not more than a dozen buildings - in ' BreVarriiw -' leaped serious damage. The total cost of tho havoo was estimated ,at .£15,000, the'rail.way was 'washed away' in places, and'the last cablegram: reported that ."the" Barwon was rising rapidly. So it is not surprising -to. learn to*day. that jßourke, which is situated on' the Barwon,' over a: hundred miles, below Brewarrina, is "in fear §■' floods. Bourke has known floods - before... ! . :■ -. ■ .