RAIN AND FLOODS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 334, 22 June 1911, Page 5

RAIN AND FLOODS.

IX VICTORIA. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright • Melbourne, June 21. There have been further,heavy rains, and nil the rivers in eastern Gippsland are high. The Tiood in the Goulburn river broke the hanks in several places, and a wide area is submerged and considerable damage lias been done. In the Tambor river valley much maize has been destroyed. Along the Mitchell and other rivers stock was removed in time to prevent loss. At Seymour some streets are under water, and the police station can only be reached by lwats. People having business at the courthouse utilised boats.

A horse and cart belonging to a baker named Rerden at Mnldon were found in the creek, and Rerden is supposed to have been drowned.

Two bridges over .the Yarra at Warburton were swept away. The river overflowed some of the low-lying suburbs of Melbourne, and after reaching a height of 22% feet began slowly to fall, but, as the water in the higher reaches has still to come down, a further rise is feared.

DAMAGE AND DISCOMFORT. A TRAVELLER DROWNED. RIVER A MILE WIDE. Received 21, 8.25 p.m. 1 Melbourne, June 21. Floods have caused numerous landslides and washaways. Railway communication is badly interrupted. Healesville is partly submerged, and several residents have vacated their houses. At Cora Lynn a resident took his horse and some cows into the house to save them from drowning. Another man shared his dwelling for several days with thirty pgis. At Maldon a tramp camped on the nank of a creek is missing. His effects were found covered with mud. At Warburton the river is over a mile wide, and a variety of property is floating down it. FURTHER DISCOMFORTS. Received 22. 1.5 a.m. Melbourne," June 22. Further rains are reported in various parts of the fcita-te, and the rivers continue to rise. At Toe, coffin taarers at a funeral walked in water above their waists to the hearse. The hearse became bogged, and as they were unable to* extricate it another vehicle was obtaind.