FROM an "Eye Witness" we have the following details of the flood at Jimbour, and the heroic conduct of the overseers and others :— "On June 20 the flood was very high, and ...
Article : 427 wordsON enquiry at the Port-office, we learn from Captain Wyborn that the highest point reached by the flood in the Brisbane, last week off the Portoffice was three feet ten inches above the highest ...
Article : 2,735 wordsNEVER was such a flood known in the memory of the oldest resident here as hat just swept over the face of this extensive and fertile district. The one that occurred some six years ...
Article : 436 wordsOUR musical friends were fortunate in having a fine day and moonlight night for the first concert of the Beenleigh Musical Union, which took place in the Good Templars' Hall, on the ...
Article : 957 wordsOUR correspondent writes on June 26:— Between the effects of the flood, the railway, and the anticipated visit of Mr. Angus Mackay, who is announced by the Good Templars to ...
Article : 368 wordsI HEAR that two gentlemen of good standing and influence will contest Normanby, and that several parties are already named for Blackall. One candidate I have heard spoken of as likely ...
Article : 712 wordsTHE weather has taken up during the week, and is at present all that could be desired— dry, clear, and bracing, with a pure air and a settled sky. All traces of rain have ...
Article : 1,092 wordsNOTHING of any importance to report from here. We have had a great quantity of rain; the creeks are flooded; traffic is for a while ret[?]rded. But the country looks refreshed: the ...
Article : 163 wordsA CORRESPONDENT says:—Pullenvale is the new name given to a portion of one of the oldest, but perhaps least generally known, districts in the colony—the Upper Pullen Pullen ...
Article : 607 wordsWE have had a series of disasters which, including those that have occurred in the surrounding district, have not been equalled for many years. For a very considerable period ...
Article : 598 wordsARE you going to the races? Are you going to the circus? are the queries heard on all sides at present. Even the arrival of the steamer with its English mail does not counteract for long ...
Article : 588 wordsTHE floods have subsided, and intercourse is once more established; but there has been a whole week of suspension here, which makes us behind in news and information of all kinds. ...
Article : 700 wordsTHE Express of June 20 states that arrangements are being made for placing a steam tug, lately arrived from Melbourne, on the river. The same journal states:—During the past ...
Article : 325 wordsA GOONDIWINDI correspondent, under date June 16, writes:—"There are little or no real signs of the weather clearing up yet; while I write it rains. The M'Intyre is bank high, and ...
Article : 63 wordsFOR the last two days it hat rained incessantly, but it is now clearing up; heavy rains in June are a novelty here, our winters are generally dry. ...
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The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Sat 28 Jun 1873, Page 3
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