AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.
* GREAT DESTITUTION AT BOURKE. .WATER NOW STATIONARY. (BY BLKCTRIO TKLKGItAPH. —COPYRIGHT.) _ Svjjnicv. April 22. Tiie water remains stationary at Bourke, and it is expected it will be three weeks before it commences to recede. Nine hundred women and children are living under canvas at North Bourke, where rations are served out daily. Many of them have been rendered destitute. North Bourke is now an island three miles square, and about ten feet above high water. April 23. It is estimated that the floods at Bourke will cost the Government alone £100,000.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2774, 24 April 1890, Page 2
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93AUSTRALIAN FLOODS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2774, 24 April 1890, Page 2
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