PORT PHILLIP.
The Weather, Floods, &c. — During the past week there was an almost continual fall of rain, and in consequence the Yarra rose over two feet on Wednesday evening, and continued to increase until Saturday. The flood was considerable, all the flats at Richmond, the Swamps, and South Yarra being inuudated ; several of the brickmakers were obliged to shift their quarters, but .we have , not heard of any destruction of property. There being a chaise of the moon on Sunday, the weather cleared np, and the genial sunshine of summer succeeded the showers and blasts. The country, from the quantity of raia which has fallen, is represented as being in very fine condition, but if more rain should fall, fears are entertained for the crops. It is said that large cargoes of wool are weather, or rather read bound, the rivers being swollen, and the thoroughfares quite impassable. — Herald, Nov. 28.
The Carrier System. — The most of the settlers in this district, and in fact in ihe vicinity of the whole line of road between Melbourne and Albury, are in the habit of getting the multifarious wants of their stations supplied by the means of carriers. Their wool is conveyed to town by the same method. Very few keep more working bullocks than what are barely necessary for performing the ordinary work of the station. It has been found by practical demonstration, that the settler is a considerable gainer by this plan, which has had the effect of calling into existence a numerous and, in most instances,- a respectable body of men. There are numbers of these persons located at Albury, Ovens, Broken River, Honeysuckle Creek, Seymour, Kilraore, and other places along the line of route. Many of them are getting moderately wealthy, nnd have, for working men, a | considerable amount of capital invested in working bullocks, horses, drays, and other articles. — Broken River Correspondent of ihe Herald.
Scarletina. — This complaint is now raging to- a^very, considerable extent in Melbourne, its. ravages, heiug, however, confined to the younger- members of the community. — Gazette. ' ' <
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 359, 10 January 1849, Page 3
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344PORT PHILLIP. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 359, 10 January 1849, Page 3
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