STORM IN AUSTRALIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2221, 30 June 1891, Page 1

STORM IN AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, Jane 26. The township of Windsor is completely ■arrrouQded by water, but at Mucrumbidges it ia receding. News comes irom the islands of the wreck of.tbs American brigantine Geo. Douglas, at the Kingimill Group. The crew are safe, A severe storm swept the Ellice Group, reaching th« Gilbert Group, Damage was inflicted on the latter, many of the islands, being.inundated by the sea. A large quantity of wreckage ,waa washed ashore, spparently from a Dutch vessel. Shipping trade along the coast is paralysed owing to a tremendous sea. It is raining heavily and for miles above Richmond farms and homesteads are submerged, and great damage has been done to crops. The Mnrrnmbidgee is flooding miles of country, and it is feared it will be the most disastrous flood ever experienced in that part of the country. The country round Gundagai is inundat«d, and the drowning of two men is reported. The Collector of Customs at Port Albert fel eg rapba ih atlh eca p tai n of a coasting vessel 1 which has arrived there reporta that a ship is ashore off Port Albert. Wreckaga is coming ashore, bat a search parly sent out found no trace of the vessel or eigne of life. It is feared that all on board are lost. The weather ia boisterous and rain is failing ih torrents,