Australian Floods
By Electrio Telegraph.— Copyright. I PEB UNITED, PRESS ASSOCIATION. | Sydney, April 16. The topic of the hour is the situation at Bpurke. The Darling is still rising and a crisis is expected to-night or to-morrow. It is thought the town will be safe if the embankment holds. The emergency entails unceasing watchfulness as the Une of earthworks is three miles in length. Nearly £7,000 has been spent on the embankment. Fortunately the weather is bean tif ully fine. The women and children laden with all their worldly goods are leaving by every tram. The loss of stock is enormous, on many stations, not a single head being left autre. ' V ' ..'• This Day. ' The latest hews from Bourke is that the; railway line is in danger of being washed away. The floods at Walgett are | subsiding. ' ■
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 126, 17 April 1890, Page 2
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