AUSTRALIAN.
SYDNEY. The topic of the hour is the situation of the Bourke township, which is surrounded for 20 miles by an immense sheet of water. The latest news to hand states that the water is still rising. A crisis is expected to-night or to-morrow, and meanwhile the feeling in Sydney is one of the utmost anxiety. Lord Carrington, Governor of the colony, has left for Bourke. It ts believed that the earthwork embankment which has been raised holds the town will be saved from destruction. Increasing watchfulness is entailed, the embankment being three miles long. The protective earthworks cost nearly /700. The weather is now beautifully fine. Women and children laden with their worldly goods are leaving by every train.
Enormous losses of stock have taken place, and on many stations not a single animal remains alive.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 442, 17 April 1890, Page 2
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138AUSTRALIAN. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 442, 17 April 1890, Page 2
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