Dunedin.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 11 June 1891, Page 2

Dunedin.

• ■ . ' ■ Considerable alarm was caused on the flat on ? Monday by tlae' tfstotordinary high tide and heavy <sea" on at Ocean Beach, and in the afternoon it became evident that a breach would be made in the sand hills at St Kilda road, close to the Central Battery. At 4.30 p.m. the sea had Kg^annef th'r^fc al#^heVei ; ' for about, BoQ;j jy&fcljC wM%|; spVtad on ,to, the 16%..1yif1g tha .first experience of the kind, i^afty of 'the ifahabitints ; pl^pto"leave their houses ; but a^iljief channel was cut throtkgh within L a short time of high water,; nothing serious happened. Steps were at once taken to dam badk the water for the next tide by filling up the channel and placing bags full of sand as a protection. At St Clair the remaining portion of the sea wall has disappeared, and most of" the Esplanade has been washed away. The next high tide will probably see several sections of land swallowed up as there is nothing, but the line of sandhills, now rapidly being eaten away, between the ocean and St Kilda, South Dunedin, and part, of Caversham. The residents a;nd property owners are very considerably, alarmed. The work of filling up the channel cut by the sea at Ocean Beach was finished about 7 o'clock, but nothing will be known of the result till i a.m. The wind, which had died away, is freshening up again. The damage done by the breach is practically confined to gardens.