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EXTENSIVE RAINS. (Australian Press Assoc ml ion) SYDNEY. April I. 'Flic most extensive rains for fifty years are being experienced in Austral in. Heavy registrations arc now being recorded in New Mouth Wales. Floods are expected. A report from Darwin staL-s Hint the- worst flood ever known is now on at Katherine. The wale,- is two and three feed, deen in the lions -s, while nt Darwin nlso. considerable damage lias hei’n caused by the will yvv illy trees bring uprooted, buildings being overturned. and. roofs being earned away. The Weather Bureau at Sydney warns Hupping in...the central and Southern Tasinan S''a to expect strong northwest winds followed by squally southerlies and rough seas.
DR AM AT 1C SUCIDK. BY F.X-SYDNEY GIRL. SYDNEY. April I. Mrs Townsend, who is menfioned in the Nice message as being killed in a motor tragedy, was a former Sydney girl. She married a rich Chicago man. Mrs Townsend motored over a precipice, near Nice, where sh ( . was staying with her husband and her baby. It is Ixdieved rlint worry over eve trouble was responsible |'o t - th ( < tragedy. LONDON, April 1. The Nice corresnondent of the “I)ailv Express’’ states tint tln> police (here hdieve that De Chavamieß, who is a descendant of the .famous on inter., may have been in the motor ear with .Mrs Townsend. De Chavaiincs was a close friend of .Mrs Townsend.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1931, Page 3
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