FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 300, 21 November 1883, Page 2

FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.

;7 r ;i*By : TKi^eniPH.jUr.,^ ...(T/NITEDPBESS:)ISSp.CJIitTIQK;) , "- DjxNEmsi ..Ai AH accounts of the flpod.speak pjEithe water as haY&g, risen. with. pnexpecjtecl rapidity, i Aniofficej- of the Education : Department,. jWJip was proceeding! to., rNiaseby via •; Raju&rston on Saturday^, informs the Star that he had never, witnessed such a remarkable rise! p^ . vk-atergsiii.ee, he Jjas l)qen , m the-cqnntiy as ue'saw' thVFlag Sw"imp on|. Saturday afterno"onTast. But for* tire V^rb* ' tng of a' fkrm^V.he^tJiin k's "-fie u issi h^ve met with'U ve^ serious accident injliis' anxiety to mikg'Paliner^ton thaouiiht. bn : v'eaoflingHl^ "Pleaspift"* Creek bria^e'fieTcmnd it impossible- to proceed, and so dangercrus' piosi tion'then thut hc-wa^'cp^elle'dtoj^t? out of his boggy and ;r^'ppe'iiis way} m order' to tufh hi§!h ; (^rsfcj the wateY, being up to his armpits.''' '* On i"eVhv"ifrrioj to« Flag Swamj), after an absence of scarcely ''naif an hour, thro "wa^P 1 was fully j 3ft oyer the voad/aribTthe Ipcal schoolmaster 'might hIVIW -s^ii v, witn a lni wliW if tffio mMht%%h^Afm %$m Ld chattels iuto the ? chdblhMwHvrM has : r'a'fie. "-^o^*B?% BFfcfl&Wanjp 1 do not r^o(^^^fm^f -the wSters e^very^hWea'ppelif^prr-have sub.;, sided almost as rapidly as 'tfiey^roiie. » > B ATM twelie,. The-flpods, cyu the Taieri Plain are ngt^ sp-jSeMe^.^lj, some darn/igo has leen t , ojcfiasTc^e^Loii^ the 1 $?w?lylrig portioi sjgfc fi plßii^'iM^ioffibfns of some of the stvic^lmWhavo been washed away. The weather continuescold and showery.