\nMARKDALE.<\/p>\n
(From our correspondent)<\/p>\n
THE weather for the past week has been gloomy and<\/p>\n
threatening, with occasional showers. The settlers<\/p>\n
and shepherds on the banks of the Crookwell and<\/p>\n
Fish Rivers have been employing themselves in<\/p>\n
erecting bark gunyahs on the high lands in expecta-<\/p>\n
tion of greater floods, and many of them I fear have<\/p>\n
had to resort to them already.<\/p>\n
Last night it poured rain from a little after dark<\/p>\n
till after daylight this morning; all the creeks about<\/p>\n
here were within a few inches of being as high as the<\/p>\n
great flood; newly-erected fences, and temporary<\/p>\n
bridges have again been washed way, so that we<\/p>\n
are again hemmed in for a day or two. In conse-<\/p>\n
quence of rumours of other floods to come, none of<\/p>\n
which I can trace to an author, many farmers are<\/p>\n
actually at a standstill. As for ploughing, they have<\/p>\n
at last despaired. Speak to any of them about it, the<\/p>\n
invariably reply is, ” no crops this year.” Many of<\/p>\n
them who wished to get to the market, and were<\/p>\n
prevented by the impassable state of the roads, are<\/p>\n
glad now, as they intend keeping their grain for the<\/p>\n
mill next year. Hundreds of tons of potatoes are<\/p>\n
rotting in the ground from the water lying on them ;<\/p>\n
those who have pigs have turned them into them, and<\/p>\n
those less fortunate, have to leave them to scent the<\/p>\n
atmosphere for hundreds of yards around the pad-<\/p>\n
docks in which they are.<\/p>\n
May 24.<\/p>\n
\n<\/blockquote>\n
MARKDALE. (1870, June 1).\u00a0The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle\u00a0<\/i>(NSW : 1864 – 1881), p. 3. Retrieved April 10, 2013, from http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article101474540<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The flooding at Markdale Continues… MARKDALE. (From our correspondent) THE weather for the past week has been gloomy and threatening,[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[166,31],"class_list":["post-22790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history","tag-floods","tag-markdale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22988,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22790\/revisions\/22988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}