More Floods in Australia
LT«JB UNITED PBKSB ASSOCIATION:!; Sydnbt^ March 24 | It is raining heavily again,. arid tniles of t <country are under water. At Bourke, an island town on the. Darling Biver, the ! Tesidents are preparing to fly, fearing a greet flood. A tnail contractor named Simpson was drowned' while * endeavoufinw to cross the. Hawkosbury. ;■••■,■;■■■:.: This Day ..Owing to a phenomenal downpour in ihe Darling tributaries it is expected the biggest flood ever known will occur. Brisbane, March 24. Heavy rain has fallen and floods are again feared. ' At Tbwnsville a hurricane swept the town, and several shops were demolished. v • ■ . . .•'■■'■'.' This Day. Great floods have taken place at Borna and Towng^lle t a^iwi both towns are inundated. s OwingJ to a further slip on the railway traffic oetween here and Sydney has been stopped.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 116, 25 March 1890, Page 2
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