THE AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4349, 20 February 1893, Page 3

THE AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.

The Brisbane Wires Again Down Inundations in Nw South Wales, Sydney, February 17. Telegraphic communication with Brisbane is again interrupted, Tho Barwon and Namoi rivers are in heavy flood, and the Clarence is rising with alarming rapidity. Wide stretches of agricultural land are inundated, and many farmers aro ruined, A portion ofLauoro is under water, AtNfljfrs, February 17. Subscripts for the Queensland Disaster Fund now amount to over £IOOO. The Auckland Trotting Club contributed twenty guineas ibis afternoon, to tho fund. The Catholic Bishop of Auckland intends to have collections in tho churches of his dioceeo for the, Fund. London, February 17. The sum of XISUO has been subscribed in aid of the Queensland sufferers, The committee express a desire to receive d> (nils of the floods and (he class of reeip cuts needing relief, Sydney, February 18. Railway communication is suspended beyond Tamworili, 282 miles .Jfiftflf Sydney, Vt<m" T» Touwoomisa, February 18, Deports of the Hood stuto that it is surpassing tho pi ovions one. Telegraphic communication with Brisbane failed yesterday morning, the lines being completely submerged, Before commucication ceased the flood had reached the level of the 1890, and the water was still rising rapidly, Wellington's First Remittance to the Relief Fund, (By Telegraph.—Press Association), Wellington, Monday, The proprietors of the Evening Post have to-day cabled a first remittance of three hundred pounds to the Premier of Queensland, subscribed by the public in aid of the Hood sufferers. Auckland Sends £IOOO. Auckland, Monday, Tho Queensland Relief Committee has decided to-day to send a further sum of £OSO, making £IOOO forwarded so far.