THE AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7080, 28 February 1893, Page 3

THE AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.

(By Telegraph.)

NAPIER, Fbb. 28.

With the £250 already cabled, the cash subscriptions to the Queensland relief fund amount to £3lO. A good many lists are yet to come in.

FBILDING, Fbb. 28.

The Mayor wired £IOO to tho Queensland sufferers this morning, and a quantity of produce has been forwarded to Wellington for shipment to Brisbane.

WELLINGTON, Fbb. 28.

The Evening Post to-day cabled £2OO to Brisbane for the relief of the flood sufferers, making £SOO forwarded. The list is still open.

CHRISTCHURCH, Fbb. SB,

At a meeting of *be Executive of the Queensland floods relief committeethiamornmg it was decided to expend £3OO in the purchase of flour, oatu eal and blankets tor transmission to Brisbane. Shipping space had been engaged for 50 tons of produce. The total amount of subscriptions is *ouu. LATBB. The Queensland fnnd now totals £726.

The special services held in the churches in Geraldine on Sunday last in aid of the relief fund were well attended. The offertories at the Anglican Church of St. Mary realised £l2; Peel Forest church, £2 18s j at the Primitive Methodist Church £2 I6s; at the Boman Catholic Church £l6 A collection will also, be made at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday next-