THE LATE RAINS.

Evening Star, Issue 3301, 18 September 1873, Page 3

THE LATE RAINS.

The heavy rain which fell incessantly during a portion of Wednesday last and Thursday morning up to 11 o’clock did, in some instances, considerable damage. The strong wind which blew towards the land caused the ocean (.0 run mountains high, baekiugup the wafers in the rivers, thereby causing them in places to overflow their banks, and flood the adjacent lauds. At Pleasant River, and the new bridge at Mount Royal, the waters made considerable inroad into the banks, and the flat at the back of the township was one sheet of water. The Waikouaiti River, although much swollen, did not overflow its banks. In crossing the Shag River on Thursday, we understand that Messrs Swanson and Warburton’s coach Was capsized, owing to one of the horses turning restive when' in the middle of the stream, which was considerably swollen at the tiine. Fortuately nothing serious resulted beyond a good ducking, and the loss of some of the cushions belonging to the coach. On Wednesday and Thursday the sea here was tremendously rough, and presented an array of white-created billows hastening towards the shore, where they spent fury on the rocks or banka with an impetuosity that was grand to witness—the spray being driven by the force of the concussion for many yards. So far as we are aware, Mr W. Mill, builder, is the oply one who has suffered any loss through the stormy weather in the river or bay. It appears that he had unloaded from a craft in the river into his large punt several thousand palings, which he loft, as he thought, securely moored at night. On. the following morning, however, he found that his punt had been driven from her moorings, and the palings—seven thousand, we believe—carried out to sea, or scattered about in various places, The punt itself was cast on to the beach, and is embedded in the sand, considerably damaged. A more stormy or cold and cheerless week has not been experienced during the past "winter. —Waikouaiti Herald,'