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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1710, 17 May 1886, Page 3

Mr A. A. Browne, secretary to ths. Education Bourrl, informs the Ghrmich that a letter was posted to the chairman of the School Committee, informing him of the intended visit of the board's depu-: tation, by the same mail as the letters to Mr Snelsbn and the Rev. 1 Mr Wright. ,The floods m ChristchurcH have beeii the most severe ever known there; mapy families being flooded but, «nd some having to take refuge on the roots until rescued. A" sharp shock of earthquake was experienced early on Sunday morning. The river at the Pitzherbert Bridge was m a state of high .flood this forenoon, with a good deal of timber coming down : . Mr Hicks, formerly of the local Bank pf Australasia, is at present on a visit to Palmerston. ' , A meeting of the Sports and Grounds Committee of the Caledonian Society will bo held at the Cbminerwal Hotel this evening at 7.30. A full attendance is. requested. Several new advertisements are unavoidably held over. , , The water was over the Awahuri bridge at 8 o'clock this morning, smcev which' time it has gone down. ■* We hear that a portion of the Awahuri Eoad is under water. Tho Manawatu Road Board intend to Btrjko a general rato of three farthings m the £ for the current y«ar. . • At the Police Court this morning hefore Mr H. McNeil, J.P., a man named Saddler was fined 5s and costs or 2* liours for druukenness. :', The coach left to-day at 2,30 with a hope that passengers and mails could be. crossed/ ; Messrs Wollerman & Hutches»n were f rtirly crowded cut on Saturday evening with customers. ' „ , The cause of the disaster to the the Awahuri Bridge was the accrimnlation of timber, which stopped tht velume of water between the pi«rsi and broke away the embankment. The water was nearly over the Man^aotu; Bridge this forenoon, and from U.»re to Mr D. L. Smith's the road was-under watea. . Ther« is an open gap m the BPPro^h to^h^A^ahnjj-^Hd^pa the flujlf HO?