The Weather.

Manawatu Herald, 26 May 1904, Page 3

The Weather.

A HEAVY FLOOD EXPECTED. The local Postmaster has received the following information to-day from the Woodvillc and Feilding Postmasters respectively : “ The river is very high. Rain not so constant.” “ Oroua river in high flood. Rain ceased here, but raining np country.” The mail coach was nearly an hour late to-day owing to the flood. At 3 o’clock this morning the Manawatu river was threatening to overflow the bank on the other side of the Fitzherbert bridge, Palmerston, and was rising rapidly. WANGANUI UNDER WATER. There is a very heavy flood in the Wanganui river, which is running bank high and likely to equal the great flood of ißqr. Taupo Qusy is under water, and boats are at present being rowed up and down in front of the Chronicle office. No serious damage has yet been done. DISASTER AT BRUNNER. The secretary of the Wellington post office was advised by Mr Me Kittrick, the Brunnerton postmaster, that terrible weather was experienced there on Tuesday. There are several heavy slips in the Brunner Gorge. Jones’ Terminus Hotel was demolished, and the proprietor, Henry Jones, was buried in the ruins. Walter Cosgrove’s house, adjoining, was swept away. Seven children were killed and Mrs Cosgrove was seriously injured. A. W. Parkinson’s chemist shop was destroyed, four of the inmates being rescued with difficulty. Parkinson had his leg injured. The Brunner mine stables were covered with debris and two horses injured. Two hundred men are digging out the bodies of (hose buried. Railway traffic is blocked. The rivers are in flood.