Slowly but surely the flood waters around Torwood, Rosalie, and Milton continned a backward movement throughout yesterday, and as inch of their irriguous houses ...
Article : 515 wordsThe area drained by the Brisbane river and its tributaries above the city is some 4,600 square miles, and giving an average fall of 7 inches over this, the amount of rain which ...
Article : 79 wordsWhen the Waters of Norman Creek had risen to the level of the 1887 flood people who had not already had to vacate their houses, and who prided themselves on, being a little higher in ...
Article : 792 wordsA rumour was also current that a man had been drowned at the gasworks at Newstead, but information has since hern received by the police that the man referred to was seen since ...
Article : 61 wordsAnother fatality is said to have occurred last evening, at Red Jacket Swamp, by which a man lost his life. The accident occurred near the site of Cribb's bee farm, at which ...
Article : 93 wordsAn aquatic sportsman writes as follows: At first view one would imagine that sports, aquatic, would be the least affected by the flood but probably no pastime in this colony has ...
Article : 274 wordsA man was reported to the police to have been drowned in Bunnell street, South Brisbane, and constables immediately proceeded to the spot with drags and tried to recover the body. ...
Article : 95 wordsAnother fatal accident occurred at the West Milton bridge last evening about 7 o'clcok. Thomas (or Patrick) Murray, a labouring man formerly employed on the line, and who latterly ...
Article : 201 wordsWe are informed by Mr." Stevens, M. L. A., that the South Coast Line will be open between South Coast Junction, Southport, and Beaudesert, this afternoon for one train per ...
Article : 56 wordsThe following indicates the state of things on the Upper Brisbane: Mr. J. Clement', waterworks engineer, wrote to the Queensland Times on Wednesday :--Appended are a few items ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Chief Secretary received the following telegram from the Hon. John Douglas, dated Thursday Island:--" March 13, 10.20 a m. ...
Article : 207 wordsIn Booroodabin and at Breakfast Creek the flood waters began to subside at 3 a m. yesterday, until, as evening approached, a' very appreciable difference in the height of the water ...
Article : 3,981 wordsProbably persons, living along this road suffered less than their neighbours, so far as suspension of traffic was concerned, although the arrangements made in this respect were not ...
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Advertising : 2,675 wordsThe flood, waters at Goodna reached to a height of 14 feet above the level of the 1864 flood, and the picture which the country presented almost defies description. Nearly every ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Fri 14 Mar 1890, Page 5
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