The Weather.

Manawatu Herald, 17 June 1902, Page 2

The Weather.

Saturday morning’s Daily Times says:— Shortly before 12 o’clock the pipes between the, town and reservoir snapped in the vicinity of the bridge, and at midnight, the reservoir was empty and the town suppty cut off* At Te Awe Awe street the water was' pouring through culverts under the road to their Utmost discharging capacity, filling up the, watercourses and hollows in the vicinity of Hokowhita very rapidly, thus giving unmistakeable testimony that, the river was still nsfmg. . Before ptfeo’clock it had passed -the highest mark- reached during the great Easter flood of 1897. _ . At Awapuni the road which is being formed to the new racecourse has, we? understand, been considerably dam' aged, and the workmen’s camp completely flooded out, the ridge-poles of some of the tents being all that can be seen above the sea of water. The low-lying land in the vicinity of Stoney Creek is all under water, and the road is covered for a very long stretch, rendering traffic unsafe. The Waipawa train, due at 8 o’clock last night, did not reach town until 9. Mr E-. A. Elliott, who was a passenger, informs us that the rain commenced to fall at Dannevirke at mid-day on Thursday. All the low-lying ebuntry at the entrance to the Gorge, on the Hawke’s Bay side, over an extent of miles, was under water, and soma families had to leave their homes. At the Upper Gorge Bridge the water was 35 feet above the ordinary river level.

<f Our Navy.”

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