The Queensland Floods

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 103, 18 February 1893, Page 2

The Queensland Floods

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. : London, February 15. i The Queensland Conimi'tee lias cabled to Brisbane a sum of £1000. in aid of the \ sufferers bj the flood. I Bbisbank. February 16. It is again raininjj heavily, and the I rivers are rising. February 17. One thousand five hundred pounds have been subscribed in aid of the Queensland sufferers. j Araone; the phenoracn >1 rainfalls recently 35 inches in 24 hours was recor ded at Blacknll Ranges, nbout 625 miles N.W. of Brisbane. This in believed to be the world's record. Heavy rain is falling it Toowoomba and most of the Darling! howns stations expect great floods. Tremendous floods are anticipated in Bundaberg, 272 miles n rth of Brisbane, imd trains are in readings lo convey the inhabitants From north Bundaberg, If drought continues in central Queensland for another two months mest of the stock will be d.-.-ul. Chuistchubch, February 16 Tbe directors of tiie Kai ii> i Woollen Company forward on M'-n'.-iya bale of blankets and hosiery f»r distribution among the sufferers by ih • late flood. Auckland, February 16. A telegram has been tviviwd from the Premier stating that the resolution carried at the -meeting in Auckland a>king thnta sum of money from (he colonial revenue should be devoted to Ihe Queenslaud relief fund, will receive the attention of the Government as so«u nn possible. Sydvky, February 17. The Barwon and Xnmoi rivers are in heavy flood, and the Clarence is rising with alarming rapidity. Wide stretches of agricultural land are inundated, and many farmers are ruined. A portion of Listuore is under water. This Day. Telegraphic communication with Brisbane failed yesterday morning, the wires being completely submerged. The water is still rising rapidly.