SERIOUS FLOODS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7716, 19 January 1905, Page 2

SERIOUS FLOODS.

* tOCKHAHPTON WHARVES COVERED. Fartber Inundations Feared. IIRISUANE, .Inn. 18. Heavy roins continue throughout ho Btat«, awl floods arc causing lamage along the rivers. There are wverol (interruptions on the railway. (Received .lan. 10, 0.47 a.m.) BRISBANE, Jan. 18. Heavy rain continues in many place*, ami nine Inches fell at Gladstone and seven and a half at Rockhampton. where the riv«r rose six inches over the wharves. Merchants were engaged all day in removing goods. The water is now stationary, but further downpours in the outlying districts, it its feared, wUt result in a heavier flood. The departure of the mail train to Brisbane is indefinitely postponed owing to the flooded state of the railway. At Maryborough a man was drowned while crossing the river in a 'dray. : 18 SEW SOUTH WALES. HEAVY DOWNPOURS. SYDNEY, Jan. 18. Further heavy rain has fallen in the nor'th-westera 'districted Three and a half inches were recorded at Tweed River. INYERCARGILL UNDER WATER. AN UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE. INVERCARGILL, Jan. 18. Following on the tw u days of drizzle, which saturated the country, a steady fall olf rain during the night, amounting to two inches, brought about a flood In the small creek which flows through the town that has not been equalled for 24 years. The public gardens were all submerged, flower beds in fuil bloom disappearing in the laEo, wbiich obliterated the creek. No damage of any moment is reported, and the falls seem to have been heaviest round tbo town. Some of the |wsscngcrs on the express walked into town fr 0 m tho Mill Road, where tie creek washod out tho ballast from tho line.