FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.
A TOWN UNDER WATER. Received March 16, 10.55 a.m. SYDNEY, March 16. Tamworth is under water. It is the greatest flood for 25 years. Stock, it is feared, has perished in large numbers on low lying paddocks. A CONSTABLE DROWNED. Received March 16, 10.55 a.m. BRISBANE, March 16. Constable Murtagh was drowned at Fortitude Valley while trying to rescue a horse from the flood waters. COMMUNICATION WITH QUEENSLAND DISLOCATED. TELEGRAPH LINES WASHED AWAY. Received March 17, 1.8 a.m. SYDNEY, March 16. Communication with Queensland is dislocated through the floods. Three milea of telegraph lines have been washed away. Thousands of sheep and cattle are surrounded by flood waters at Boggari, where the downpour is the heaviest for sixty years.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 17 March 1908, Page 5
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122FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 17 March 1908, Page 5
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