L 25,000 NEEDED
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) February 13. Up to tho peesent 421 families, representing 2000 persons, have been relieved. The fund has reached L6OOO. It is estimated that 10,000 persons will require relief, absorbing at least L 25.000. The Q.ueeu has cabled a message of sympathy to the sufferers by the floods, and has requested to be supplied with fuller details, Dunedin, February 13. Mr Hallenstein heads the Queensland relief fund with a donation of LSO. February IJ,. The river is slowly rising and the wharves are again submerged. Railway communication with Sydney is interrupted and the line further damaged. Heavy Hoods are experienced in Toowoomba, the streets are flooded and many of the shops inundated. Sydnky, This Day. Boats are plying m the strerts in Grafton rescuing the residents. The water is now receding,
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 101, 14 February 1893, Page 2
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136L25,OOO NEEDED Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 101, 14 February 1893, Page 2
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