THE AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.
Houses Under Water at Newcastle, Newcastle, March 10. Tlio water is up to the enves of the houses, and a stoamer with boats was despatched lo rescue the inhabitants, many of wHom were dinging to roofe, She rescued 800 people. Publio buildings are crowded and provisions aro scarce,^ Nearly all the farmers have lost their live stock. All tbo collieries have been obliged to stop work and between 3000 and WOO men are idle. { Maitland IB in a deplorable condi» I {ion, the country round about is like fta an inland sea. of a thousand families are ■«*w A good deai of damage is being done to the railway lines. All communication betweon Maitland and Newcastle is put off, Winter's large agricultural works sro washed away.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4366, 13 March 1893, Page 3
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129THE AUSTRALIAN FLOODS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4366, 13 March 1893, Page 3
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