AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION A SAD DOUBLE. TRAGEDY SYDNEY. May 27. At Ghidesville. the Innr-year-old son ui Mrs Holland fell into the water in an abandoned quarry. The mother was informed, and she rushed from her home, and jumped into the water to rescue her child. Help was soon available, hut in the meantime loth had sank and when the bodies were recovered, life was extinct. SCULLING. SYDNEY. May 27. Saul lias again challenged Major Goodsell to row for the world s ohuntpioiiship. Goodsell is prepared to meet Saul if the championship is not involved, bill Saul insists the race must be for the title.

REIN AND FLOODS. SERIOUS DAMAGE. •Received this day at D a.m.) SYDNEY, May 2S. The telegraphic service is badly ittinrnipted by heavy rain storms. Meareports coming to hand to-uighl indieate phenomenal lulls o! rain and heavy Hoods ill the southern districts. At Arulaveti loir- points fell, lass reports the river ovcrtlowed the town, the lowly tug purls being under water. A number of families were rescued ill burls. There is wide damage over the cultivation area. At the latest, the Hood is at a standstill but water Irotit tin* higher reaches is expected to lender the position Gnndagai reports the river is lising rapidlv. Stock is being removed fium the lowlands. Air ly there have been big losses through the Hoods destroying the maize crops. At (plea nhe von the Hood washed a bridge away. Dozens of families had to be rescued in boats. All the Hats are submerged and some houses vveie washed away, and others submerged to the eaves. . A brief report from AYagga states tlie river is m high tlood. Many residents removed to the highlands. The weather report to-day indicates further stormy weather is probable and heave rain is approaching from the smith. The Weather Bureau warned settlers to ex per l heavy Hoods in the soutlit.’in rivers. Delaveil wires from, scattered sources indicate the Hoods are widespread through the southern districts and the damage serious. (I.mll uiru reports heavy Hooding. All reports, however, up to a late hour give little details. A heavy storm is raging on the mull, coast below Mutuya, travelling north. The weather in Sydney is clear and line. TERRIFIC FLOODS FEARED (Received this day at 1 •->.:«> P "i ) SYDNEY. May 2S. Terri tie Hoods are almost inevitable in Miiirunihidgee river. Grave leais are fell lor the safety of lives and stock. Torrents of rain in the ranges about Kinmlra. and ( noma caused rising river.- to rush down every gully that feeds hundreds of square miles ot the MuiTc.mbidgce watershed. At Gundagai, tlie river is rising a foot each Hour. At (noma it is impossible to get within a mile of the banks. Water several feet deep is tearing over the country. The main road between Sydney and Melbourne i- under six feet ni water. Houses along tin* river aie submerged and stacks of Interne bn.'. ' i e washed away. All other repum- are equally alarming, in 1822 the river (kindl'd n great part ot Waggi and indications ore that higher levels will be reached this time. Tiimut river is also running a banker. Reports from Burrinimk dam stilt” the water is over the main wall ol the 'lniii. and all tlm great supply of pipes and much of the other works for the hydro-elect ric scheme at the dam are we bed away. The Dost UMiee stall was compelled to abandon the buidliitg in Queanbeyail district.

Flood waters of Moloiiglo river are washing high over the bridges providing access from Qtieanheyan to Canberra.

Trains are cancelled and telegraphic ami telephonic communications with Canberra interrupted. The lines which normally are thirty feet above the

river are washed away. A man at Canberra «ns drowned through bis < a r falling into deep water between Biingemlore and Gotilliurn. The country is Hooded for miles at Maruys. Ollicial reports say the wind reached a velocity of (it to 75 miles an hour. The rainfall during the twenty-four hours was KfeM points. Khoailmveil river is rising and the wharf and Imatshed are already submerged.