The Australian Floods
(PKR TRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, March 13. The water in West Maitland reached tlie second floor of two-storey buildings. The inhabitants are subsisting on biscuits and jam, no other food being procurable The water is now receding. Several of the residents of Morpeth were rescued after being on roof of dwellings all night. The loss of lire stock is enormous and all the crops ate destroyed. Many poopto nrc in a pitiublo stnte, being totally ruined, while distress among all classes is acute.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 113, 14 March 1893, Page 2
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85The Australian Floods Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 113, 14 March 1893, Page 2
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