THE OTAGO FLOODS.
.TROUBLES NOT YET OVER; (BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL CORHESPON'DENT,)' ■ Dunedin, July 23. This morning'tho Taieri River at A'llpnton was running -bank high, and in, some places was -slightlyoverflowing. ; At.' Henley 1 tho water -still stands in a broad sheet, and very little'seems'to havo got away. ' Yesterday's subsidence of ,;18in. at the : 58-mile mark on the : Otago Central Railway increased to •Ift. ' .• ; During last- night thero has also been'a bad slip two miles further up near Gapburn. Tho downtrain.-, from Clydo' to-day could get no further'than that spot, while the 7.45 a.m. .' up train'; from' Dunedin could get no further than the 58-mile mark. . The gap of two .miles was negotiated by tho passengers of both trains on trollies.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 258, 24 July 1908, Page 9
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119THE OTAGO FLOODS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 258, 24 July 1908, Page 9
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