Exchange Rooms Subscription for Floods The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General
Advertiser 10 July 1852 |
At the request of several gentlemen who were at the Exchange Rooms at the
usual hour yesterday, Messrs Alexander, Reeve, and T. Woolley, undertook to
receive and apply subscriptions in aid of the sufferers by the devastating
floods at the Murrumbidgee. Mr. Dawes consented to act as secretary and treasurer, and Mr. Davies
to collect subscriptions. Upwards of £80 was subscribed in the room. It is expected that further information as to the extent of the
ravages of the flood will be received by the mails due this morning. |