FLOODS IN WELLINGTON.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2607, 15 August 1882, Page 3

FLOODS IN WELLINGTON.

[FBBBS ASgOOIATIOK TBLBOaAM. J WELLINGTON, August 14. Heavy rain has been falling lince Saturday evening, and still shows no (ign of abating. Several slips have occurred about town, and several low lying parts of the city have suffered more or less from the rush of water. A house built on the side of an embankment In Hay street, Oriental Bay, was completely dislodged and carried away early this morning. The occupants, Mr H. Taylor (the owner), wife, and two children, had a narrow escape of being carried with it. It appears the rain washed away a large quantity of earth from the embankment thereby loosening the piles of the house; About live o’clock this morning the inmates were awoke by a loud creaking noise, and next moment found that the building was swaying to and fro in the gale. Perceiving the danger they were placed in, Taylor and his wife instantly jumped out of bed, and hurriedly dressed the children, afterwards removing them to a place of safety. They had had not escaped a moment too soon. No sooner had they evacuated the premises and placed a reasonable distance between the building and themselves, than another fall of earth took place, and with a tremendous crash the house was uprooted and came rolling down the side of the embankment, until it reached the street, a distance of nearly 40ft. There it lay with its side half embedded in the road, which it completely obstructed from one side to the other. The furniture, crookeryware, and household goods of every description were flung out of doors and windows, as the house planted itself across the street, and there lay scattered and broken in all directions. Mr Taylor is a sufferer to the extent of nearly JB2OO.