Floods in Australia.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 2845, 30 June 1891, Page 2

Floods in Australia.

Townships in Sanger. Lobs cf Life. /Per Press Association,) Sydney, June 29. The town of Wagga is in a bad state in consequence of the heavy rains. The telegraph lines to Sydney are interrupted, but a message which, came through by way of Melbourne showed that late last night matters were in a serious condition. The town was being gradually flooded, and the gasworks were already submerged. One man had been drowned and boats were badly wanted. The township cf East Queanbeyan is ipundated to a depth of six feet and Terrara three feet. Stock and produce were being swept down tho Murrumbidgee. Melbourne, June 29. It is now believed the old wreck on Clonmel Island has been mistaken *«* a fresh disaster at Port Albert, "\~ *i,« fV~" to * of Customs re~ where the Cone.. <w n rdav ported there was awreckon u„.."•***: Great floods are coming down in Gippsland. Snowy Valley is completely under water, and belief parties are out. A boat used by one of them capsized, and two men are missing. Many farmers are almost ruined. Sydney, June 29.

The barqueutine Vagabond, bound from Newcastle to Westport, when ten days out encountered a series of gales, which drove her back to Sydney. She is very much damaged. The flood in the Murrunabidgee is within two feet of the memorable flood in 1852, when the whole town* ship of Gundagai was washed away and 81 of the inhabitants were drowned. Although the water is falliug the .current is running with fearful rapidity, and several houses have been washed away. Goodin and Worland are the names of the two men drowned at Gundagai. A relief party went out to rescue the men who were perched in trees, and took out four of them. On the return journey the boat capsized, and the men clung to snags for nearly seven hours. Out of a crowd of forty) people who had collected on the dry ground only one named True volunteered to endeavour to rescue the unfortunate men. He started in a boat by himself, and after two attempts he succeeded in rescuing all except Worland, and Goodin.