Heavy Storm in Dunedin.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 111, 5 November 1894, Page 3

Heavy Storm in Dunedin.

THOUSANDS OF POUNDS WORTH OF DAMAGE. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, November 3. One of the eevest downpours of rain and hail ever experiened came on this afternoon at about 5 o'clock. The streets were flooded in a few minutes, and as the downpour continued the shops wero flooded and thousands of pounds worth of damage was done. In Maclaggen and Rattray streets, which are the outlets for the discharge from the hills, empty tanks were to be seen floating down the streets. The channels in some streets were torn up. The cellars in Rattray street were flooded, and probably many warehouses iv Bond and Lower High streets. In Princess street Mr Braithwaite suffered severely. In George street the loss of many shopkeepers is very heavy. Fyfe and Cuming had fully £500 worth of goods damaged— a severe blow following on Mr Fyfe's loss of a wife and child in the Wairarapa. November 4. It is impossible to get a reliable estimate of the damage by the downpour, much of which was caused by the leakage from the roofs by the overflow from the sewer, water from which backed up into the cellars in the lower business portion of the city. A man named Thos. Scott is supposed to have been drowned at the Taieri mouth.