CHRISTCHURCH.
STOPPAGE OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC. SUDDEN DEATH. June 13. Very heavy rain fell last night. All the rivers are very high. At the Waimakiriri a heavy flood overflowed the banks on to railway line, and about midday traffic was completely stopped on the southern railway line. At the Rakaia the flood washed away part of the approaches to the bridge, delaying the traffic. The weather has been fine all day, and the rivers are now subsiding. A man named Hugh Ferguson, who arrived from Wellington last Saturday, dropped down dead at Frank's boardinghouse this morning. Congestion of the brain is the supposed cause of death.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 356, 14 June 1877, Page 2
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