HEAVY LANDSLIP.
[PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, This Day. At midnight, a tremendous landslip occurred. The clifi, at Fort Britomart, near the centre of the city, a cliff about 80 feet high, (against which Mr John Lamb, for the past three years, has been erecting a retaining wall and flour mill) about 150 feet in length by 50 feet high, gave way, and about 2000 tons of debris coming down, destroying a portion of the mill and covering the roadway. A cabman passing at the time had a narrow escape.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 92, 17 April 1883, Page 2
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90HEAVY LANDSLIP. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 92, 17 April 1883, Page 2
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