The flooding at Markdale Continues…
MARKDALE.
(From our correspondent)
THE weather for the past week has been gloomy and
threatening, with occasional showers. The settlers
and shepherds on the banks of the Crookwell and
Fish Rivers have been employing themselves in
erecting bark gunyahs on the high lands in expecta-
tion of greater floods, and many of them I fear have
had to resort to them already.
Last night it poured rain from a little after dark
till after daylight this morning; all the creeks about
here were within a few inches of being as high as the
great flood; newly-erected fences, and temporary
bridges have again been washed way, so that we
are again hemmed in for a day or two. In conse-
quence of rumours of other floods to come, none of
which I can trace to an author, many farmers are
actually at a standstill. As for ploughing, they have
at last despaired. Speak to any of them about it, the
invariably reply is, ” no crops this year.” Many of
them who wished to get to the market, and were
prevented by the impassable state of the roads, are
glad now, as they intend keeping their grain for the
mill next year. Hundreds of tons of potatoes are
rotting in the ground from the water lying on them ;
those who have pigs have turned them into them, and
those less fortunate, have to leave them to scent the
atmosphere for hundreds of yards around the pad-
docks in which they are.
May 24.
MARKDALE. (1870, June 1). The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle (NSW : 1864 – 1881), p. 3. Retrieved April 10, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101474540