LATEST CABLE NEWS.
(REVIER'S SPECIAL TO PRESS AGENCY). Sydney, Tuesday. Great floods have occurred in the Clarence district. Two villages have been entirely submerged and several persons drowned. Hundreds are reported as starving, having taken refuge in the public buildings. There is nothing but wreck, ruin, and desolation everywhere. A branch of the Bank of New Zealand has been opened at Newcastle. The Government despatch a steamer tomorrow for the relief of the sufferers by the Clarence district flood. Five letter pillars were broken open last night, and a number of letters are supposed to have been abstracted. The Sea Spray, from Newcastle to Lyttelton, has put back. Sailed : The Basby. Melbourne, Tuesday. Ashe, the Burrumtree murderer, has been sentenced to death. The Exhibition Commissioners have resolved to ask the Treasurer for an additional vote for the necessary expenditure to save the credit of he colony at Philadelphia.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4787, 26 July 1876, Page 2
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148LATEST CABLE NEWS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4787, 26 July 1876, Page 2
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