A WATERSPOUT.
Alarming Phenomenon.
\ , ,v - -(By kTbiiE>jhapil. i j PRKBS ASSOCIATION.^ ! ChristOiturch, February 19. ' \ The Cheviot aud Waipawa districts hjive'experienced a waterspout. • It was s<ien to rise m the sea and travel rapidly inland to a boat shed where the Hon. W. Robinson loads wool. A team of b'ulloolcß with a dray were being driven by, and just as they reached a bridge over a gully the deluge descended. In a few minutes the approach to the bridge was swept away. The leadingbullock fell into -the -gully, his chain sbapped, and he disappeared under a mass of earth dislodged from the banks and. was carried out to sea- The slip is estimated at 2000 tons. 'Che waterspout raversed nearly the whole district with terrible effects. There. was no thunder or lightning or windi
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 69, 20 February 1884, Page 3
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133A WATERSPOUT. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 69, 20 February 1884, Page 3
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