FLOODS IN VICTORIA
THE WATER RECEDING. By Cfible —Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, September 18. The floods are mostly subsiding. The extreme northwest corner of the malleo country alone escaped. In the northeast, along the valleys of the Murray tributaries, the waters have left a track wider than ever before. There was phenomenal rain in the mountains, Woods Point getting nearly nine inches in five days. No further fatalities are reported, but there were many narrow escapes. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE. Received 18, 9.40 p.m. Melbourne, September 18. Wide areas are flooded in the Murray Valley and in Southern Gippsland. The damage to crops and property is severe. The losses along the valley of the- Wimmera are estimated at £IOO,OOO.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19120919.2.33
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 105, 19 September 1912, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
116FLOODS IN VICTORIA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 105, 19 September 1912, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in