Floods in Australia

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 104, 21 February 1893, Page 2

Floods in Australia

« ■ — (PEU PBEjS ASSOCIATION.) Toowoomua. February 19. All llie northern rivers are in a high state of flood. When last heard from the water was rushing through the principal throughfares in the former, while ihe whole of Lisraoro was flooded to the extrnt of several fent. The latest intelligence from Queens* land reports that Toowoomba is in a fearful condition, and that the flood has surpassed tin* last one ia Brisbine. People are abandoning their residences and seeking the hijjh ground. Wellington, February 20. The proprietors of tho Evening Post to-day cabled the first remittance of L3OO to the premier of Queensland subscribed by the public in aid of the flood sufferers. An Auckland wire states that the Queensland Belief Committee decided to.day to sent a further sum of LtioO, making LIOOO forwarded so far. Dunedi.v, February 20. The Dunedin Jockey Club have added a race on Cup day, the proceeds to be in aid of the Queensland relief fund. London, February 20. Tho Queensland relief fund has reached £2000. Svdnev, February 20. It is anticipated that tho bulk of the | maize crop of tho Clarence district will bo destroyed. The country for ten miles from Orafton is an unbroken sheet of water, but no serious casualties are reported, No further information re the floods has beou received from Brisbane This Day. The floods are receding at Grafton, Reports from neighboring districts state the maize crop supply is all destroyed and young sugar canes haye sustained much damage. Brisbane, This Day. The flood waters are slowly subsiding. The loss, compared with that of a fortnight ago, is comparatively small in Brisbane itself. The country between Ip- j swich and the city, however, is in a ter- j rible condition. The railway is considerably damaged, and many small bridges I have been washed away.