The Weather.

Manawatu Herald, 28 May 1904, Page 3

The Weather.

THE FOOD AT WANGANUI. The sight at Wanganui on Thursday, as seen from the city side of the Quay, was one not likely to be forgotten bv those who witnessed it. Boats of all kinds were on the water—single sculls, pair oars, a sailing boat, with canvas set, pleasure boats containing family parties, Maori canoes doing good work, and nondescript craft manned by small boys. The carriers did a roaring trade carrying people who desired to see the water roaring under the bridge. The water was running level with the top of the wharf. The captains of the Glenelg and Huia, which were at the wharf, had an anxious time. The Glenelg was held fast by half a dozen hawsers and an iron cable. The river at flood tide was a foot, or two above the mark painted on one of the girders ot the bridge—H.F., 13/2/91— the previous record flood. In the railway yard the trains were running through two or three feet of water. On the Taylorville side of the river the bank was washed away, and the encroachment carried with it a two-storied house nearly completed and an old wooden structure. The houses sailed away towards the beads, roof upwards. Among the passengers by a Maori canoe on Thursday morning to visit Foster’s Hotel were two well-known Christchurch and Wellington men, who were practically brought right into the hotel in a canoe.