FLOODS IN WELLINGTON.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2593, 29 July 1882, Page 4

FLOODS IN WELLINGTON.

fPiIEBS ASSOCIATION TBIEGBAK.] WELLINGTON, July 28. A heavy downpour, of rain commenced yestorday afternoon and oontinued without diminishing throughout the night. The low lying portions of the city were flooded by the terrific down msh of water. The TeAro end Of tha city suffered most, and in several places the streets vere torn up through the banting of culvarts. Kilbiraie and Newtown iaaye suffered. In Borne instences the houses <rero flooded to a depth of 3ft. The approaoh on the Wellington side of Nmharuanga bridge was carried away, and traffic was interrupted 'lot the greater part of the day. A heavy llandslip has taken plaoe on the railway, about lour miles bayond Kaitoki, completely blocking the line. The Wairarapa trains this morning wcro unab'o to got through, but had to tranship their passengers, mails, &o. After this exohaDgo had been effected the trains reversed their respeotive oourses, the inward train returning to Wairorapa and the outward train coming baok to town, where it arrived about three-quarters of an hour late. A strong force of men are at work olearing away fallen earth and rcoks, and it is expeoted that the lino will ba got dear to-night. The volume of water which poured down the Karon gully soon filled the main reservoir sad this raorniKg it overflowed its embankment. Serious consequences were anticipated, but, during ths day the flow subsided, sHid examination sho •ed that the reservoir had sustained but little damage. The whole water of the harbor is a bright yellow color, owing to the tremendous fall. Between five »__o'olock last evening and 9 30 this morning the """"iVI wfrg peariy three inohes, whioh is the heaviest recorded in same number of _ hours since 1881 witu ono exception, viz, during the night of the sth Match, 1871, when 365 inches fell and caused a heavy flood.

"THE WORLD."

On Monday evening Mr s".laud Holt's company will produce " The World " at the Theatro Eoyal here. The play has had a very long run in England and elsewhere, and ' in Dnnedin ita production by the.company -who will play it here was also a great success, livery oare has been taken by the managemsnt to mount the play thoroughly well, and, no doubt, it will be equally aa successful here as elsewhere. The piece being a new one to Chrbtchurch playgoers, a sketch of the plot may aot be uninteresting : The drama is divided into four acts aad nine tableaux. The tableaux are indicated by the psa of curtains similar to those first made familiar to [us by use in " Henry V." The chief sceaes are the departure of the •teamer from Gape Towo, freighted with passengers, wool, &r ; the same steamer in mid-ocean, and the explosion of the infernal machine whioh sets fife to the vessel. _ Pollowing this is the raft soene, revealing a limitless expanse of oosan, with its frail and careering raft and its dead and dying occu•MMMmnti, who are rescued by a passing ship. Then we have the Lor don Aquarium, the O-rand Hotel, Lincoln's Inn, the Kiver Retreat with its novel mechanism, the Palace Chambers in whiob. the elevator accident oconrs, and finally Oremorne with its many thousand lights and a masquerade ball introducing a Sretty ballet and numberless fancifully ressed characters. Though there are so many scenes, so rapidly are the changes effected that the performance terminates when in working order at twenty minutes to eleven o'olock. There are two brothers named respsotively Olement and Harry Huntingford. ihe former, through strained relationship in tbe domestic circle, leaves Eng land for the Gape diamond fields, whore he seeks his fortune under the title of Charles

Hartley. Harry is a heartless vagabond, who ——— Aswuxveo the airs and mein of a gentleman, aaaßquandering his patrimony, marries an unfortunate woman, whose money he disposes of in the same reckless manner. This woman's name is Mabel Owen, whose father and brother Ned are also at the diamond fields. Harry, though married to Mabel, is promised in marriage to Mary Blythe, who, ignorant of his mesalliance, goes oat to Cipo Town as a governess under a promise to marry Harry on her return to England. The first toene depicts the departure of the steamer Lily of the Talley from Capo Town, and among the passengers are the L Owens. By this boat an unscrupulous Jew, Mo. Jewell, has shipped a large number of worthless diamonds, which are heavily insured. In complicity with another he has also placed an infernal machine on board tha boat, set to blow the steamer up in nine days. Among the passjengers is one Martin Baahford, who has robbed Olement HuntingCord. Just aa the boat is about to leave the wharf Clement reoeives a letter telling him his father is dead, and that be has succeeded to his estates. Meeting Bashford, in lieu of the diamonds, he compels him to give him £SO, and both become pasßengeis by the Lily of the Valley. Nine days out the infernal machine explodes, and the vessel is lost. Olement, Ned Owen, his father, and Martin Baahford being saved on a raft and picked tip by a passing ship—Mabel having been saved by a whaler. The scene then shifts to London, where Harry, believing his brother to have been last, is found in villainous league with Lumley, a solicitor, to deprive Olement of his estate. Olement and Mabel also arrive on the soene to confront Harry, disoover his plot, and confound the sohemer. Mo. Jewell, Lumley, and Harry then conceive a plan for the murder of Olement, but are frustrated by the action of Martin Baahford, who, haviug discovered that Olement has in his room a paioel of diamonds, enters the room before Harry. Harry in the darkness taking Bashford for his brother, murders him in mistake. I'his disoovery being made. Sir Clement is next incarcerated in an asylum, from whioh, however, he oontiivca to escape. Harry in meanwhile cruelly discarda hia wife and ** aaaaila Mary Blythe with violenoe, and meets hia own aad end in falling down a lift shaft. The villains of the plot, Mo. Jewell and Lumley, are arrested for the Lily of the Talley job, and Clement marries Mary, while Mabel dies of heart diseaae at a f anoy dress balL