DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1927, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) I CLOUD-BURST AT GISBORNE. GISBORNE. July 2. Heavy lain fell overnight, three inches being recorded at Gisborne. T Li- morning a cloudburst occurred at Waimata YaiTey and the river rose 35 loot at Savages. 20 miles from Gisborne. It wrecked the hott-e of a drover named Robb, carried a May two bridges, and woolsheds Mere flooded. Some heavy losses of stock are reported. The toM'iiship has been cut oh from Gisborne. Tile rivers are in Mood oi other parts of the district, hut no serious damage* is reported. FLOODS AT N API Fit.

NAPIK.It July 2 Phenomena I ram in tin* last tnenlyloiir hours in the hack country, with a fall of nearly three inches on the plainresulted in all livers being taxed I" the utmost. At inn lon levels, between Hastings and Napier the road is under water and raihvny buses have ceased running as well as other traffic. A report from the hack country indicates great damage ill the Vow-lying areas from whieh all stock is being removed. Conditions suggest further rain. It the nutters rise the raihvays will become blocked as the line is already under water at danger points. DWELLING BURNT. PALMERSTON N., July 2. A lire early this meriting damaged a house at Terrace End owned by Stirhbttry, Auckland. It was recently leased to Kendall, of Takapau. The dwelling at the time was not occupied. Kendall. who had been transferring part of tiis furniture to the buii'ding having returned to Takapau to bring the remainder. together with his family to Palmerston North. Insurance on house ; that on the furniture is unknown.

SUP DERAILS ENGINE. PALMERSTON N.. July 2. A slip nTiieh came down on the railnav ill the gorge yesterday causing the derailment ol an engine, tender and two front waggons of the NapiorPalmerston sitin' train, was cleared in the early hours this morning and alter non* rails had been hud. the derailed vehicles Mere jacked into position, the train leaving for here at nine. Tho accident nas caused not so milch by the slip which nas a very trivial affair, hut* by the spreading oi tin* rails, due to a huge boulder striking the same. A special train to Woodville went through the Gorge at ten o clock and expresses are running as u-ttal. The -cone of the mishap is at the identical spot as last year's trouble, thirty yards from the mouth of a tunnel which a big slip blocked the line tor several weeks. At the time of the accident hi-t evening, a misty rain was fali'ing and it was very dark. The iirst thing , the crew knen'. was uTien the train -.Hack a boulder. The engine-driver taking every precaution, had a good hold of the engine coming out ot the tunnel. Following the impact the front train seemed rolled to one side. The engine tender and two waggons seemed to stand up partly in the air and then r left the rails altoegther. The train * was going at a moderate pace. Neither i engine-driver nor firemen wa- injured. During the period the train Mas hold up by the derailment the danger Mas prevalent* that another slip might come down, said a passenger when interviewed, but fortunately this did not happen. The passengers also had diiiictii'ty in scrambling over the slip nitli their luggage in transhipping to the relief train.

BUY IN A CAVE. CmiTSTCLirRCIi. July On Saturday morning a hoy a get 12' was found sleeping in a cate oi the Hill at Sumner. He looked colt and starved, and hi- own story wa: that lie left home because lie was badly treated by his parents, lie sail he lived at Sumner, hut he was unable to find the house, and he was token to the Police Station in bln city. A hoy of a similar ago, nh: had admitted a. series ol petty robberies at New Brighton, escaped from a policeman there some days ago, alter being arrested, and has been mi-s-