FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 157, 30 June 1891, Page 2

FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, June 28. The country round Gundagai is inundated, and the drowning of two men is reported. The flood in the Murrumbidgee is within .two feet of the height of the ' memorable flood in 1852, when the old township of Qundagai was washed away and 81 of the inhabitants were drowned. . '„_-- -- — ._- r~~i Although the" water is now falling, \\ the current is running with fearful rapidity and several houses have been washed away. A relief party went out to rescue the men, who were perched in trees, and took off four of them. On the . return journey the boat capsized, and the men clung to snags for nearly seven hours. Out of a crowd collected on dry ground only one, named True, . volunteered to endeavour to rescue the unfortunate men. He started in ' a boat by himself, and after two at- i tempts he succeeded in rescuing all ' except Warland and Qoodin. This Day. Settlers along the banks of the river I Yasa have loßt much valuable stock J by the floods. In the lower part of therOl Wagg« Wagga the water is up to the M 1 ceilings and tops 'of the verandahs of^| many of the residences. Business in^| the town is completely paralysed. One^| paatoraliet has lost four thousand sheep. The water at Gundagai is subsiding. Melbourne, June 29. H Great floods .are coming down in Gippsland, , The Snowy Valley is 1 completely under water; and relief y parties are out.. The boat used by one of them capsized, and two men ; are missing. Many of the farmers ; are almost ruined.