A Queensland gentleman has furnished a Sydney paper with some yery interesting information with reference to the history of floods in Queensland. He said :“Itis to ijie a most remarkable thing that these big floods in the northern colony, from which I come, should have happened trienially since 1884. I don’t remember the flood of 1864, which used to be a great deal calked of in my young days, but it paled into insignifi cance when compared with the subse. quent freshes, commencing in 1884. That year we thought we were getting some thing phenomenal in the way of a flood, and as a matter of fact all the old levels which used to be pointed to with con siderable awe were left far and away be hind. In 1887, however, we eclipsed all previous records again, and then we thought we had about reached the limit, but exactly three years afterwards we had another and heavier flood still; and again in 1893, when we about kicked the beam in records. It was then that the Victoria Bridge, on which we prided ourselves, went to smash, and others on which we did not set quite so much store were utterly mined. You see there is no other outlet for the waters than the main stream, and in a very short time it silts up. The tree trunks and wreckage come down with a mad rush. Some of them are borne out to sea, but others sink, and thus collect and bank up the silt, which would otherwise be washed out to sea.”

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