AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
MORE DISASTROUS FLOODS HIGH JINKS AMONG THE SHEARERS, (PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION!. Sydney, This Day. At the outcome of the discovery of a seam of coal a Port Jackson a large number of applications have been sent in for leases of land on the shores of the harbor for mining purposes A number of shearers created a disturbance on Saturday at Daydale, near Oorowa, and took possession of a hotel. They defied the landlord, and helped themselves to the liquor and the eatables in the house. Some shots were fired during the fray but only meagre particu» lars are to hand. Police have been despatched to the township. Mjblboubne, This Day. The recent heavy rains have caused the biggest flood ever known in Dunally (107 miles N. W. of Melbourne), the water rising five feet above the previous record, and bridges have been washed away and great damage done to private property. It is feared there has been a loss of life.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 115, 13 November 1893, Page 2
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