A HEAVY LANDSLIP.
Auckland, This day. At midnight last night a tremendous landslip occurred at a cliff at Point Britomart, near the centre of the city. The cliff was about 80 feet high, and against it Mr John Lamb for the past, three years had been erecting a flour mill, and also a. retaining wall about l") 0 feet in length by '>() feet in height. The wall gave way, and about *j>000" tons of debris came down, destroying a portion of the mill and covering tbu roadway. A cabman pa<siuy at the time had a narrow escape. Later. The damage by the land-slip is at fully L"2(IOO. The mill is uninjured.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3668, 17 April 1883, Page 3
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111A HEAVY LANDSLIP. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3668, 17 April 1883, Page 3
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