DISASTROUS FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2466, 18 February 1893, Page 4

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.

Brisbane, Feb. 15. Three bodies, of two men and a woman, have been recovered fiom the river. The municipal valuation of the loss by the floods in No. 1 ward, South Brisbane, is £24,000. Ninety-four houses were destroyed, and twenty-damaged. London, Feb. 14.

Sir J, F. Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, has published a telegram from the Premier of that colony, stating that it is not necessary to appeal to the public, though private assistance in aid of the sufferers by the floods would be gratefully received. The Times states that the continual increase of colonial bills is not regarded with favor in the city, and it is thought that Queensland will ask a new loan with an Imperial guarantee on account of the floods. It hopes that, despite the Ageiit-GeneraPs letter, a Mansion House fund will be started.

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Sir J. F. Garrick, the Agent-General of Queensland, denies that there is any intention of raising a loan on account of the losses by the floods. The Queensland committee have cabled to Brisbane the sum of £IOOO in aid of the sufferers by the floods.

At Temuka and Winchester to-morrow special collections will be taken up at St. Saviour’* and St. John’s Churches in aid of the At the Temuka Wesleyan Church the collection at the evening service will also be in aid of the sufferers. At the Presbyterian Band of Lb-po meeting on Thursday evening the . um of ht'D F.as collected for the Queensland sufferers.

At a public J.h J imam on ’! hursday evening £G7 was pLO-fflised in tJ:T room, and a committee appointed to ciiirviww' /or subscriptions. The three mills gave * iw.v .of flonr end), valued at £27, Mr John HdUfifyno gave £2l, and the llevs. Fat! ers iiiirthf s «.'d Tubman £2 2s, The amount collected at Auckland for the OuAeudami faster «I> to tlie present is jfflCP, of^ which £360 was cabled to Queensland on '1 Mr Jackson, Mayor ot tV#ogaiiui, has wired to the Government that the settlers on the coast are desirous of sending a barquontine with 200 tons of produce to Brisbane, .ami asked the Government to pay the freight of 25s per ton. the Government have agreed to Jo so. The Government hays with tire Bail way Commissioners to carry produce contributed to Queensland free over all lines.

The directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company forward to Brisbane on Monday a bale of blankets And hosiery for distribution among the suiterara by the late flood.