AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.
LOSS OH LIFE BY, DROWNING. ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE.; SETTLERS DRIVEN EROMi THEIR HOMES,
B'j| telcgra-pW, P*easi Asa’n>, Couyrighk . SYDNEY,. July, 12.
Latest rcp.orts arc that the river Murray and its tributaries are still rising, Tiiere is a heavy, flood in the Murrinitadgee, A large area of country, around .Cpndagai is inundated. MELBOURNE, July 12. lAH the lowlands along the /Murray are flooded. ?
j\lu,cl-. damage has been done. Many, settlers were driven from, their homes.
A boat caflsiaed in the flood waters, and a youth named Taylor .was drowned.
The Gouiburn', Ovens* and Mettamilta riyora. have overflowed. The town o£ Bethan'gia b.as> been cut off, ancl'is short of flour. ADELAIDE,, July The riven Torrens is floodod. .Tho Adelaide racecourse is partially under water.. A boy was ‘drowned in tlio Para river.
Roeeived 10.14 p.m., July 12,
Sydney, July 12. Tho floods arc subsiding.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1505, 13 July 1905, Page 2
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144AUSTRALIAN FLOODS. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1505, 13 July 1905, Page 2
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