RAIN IN POVERTY BAY.
TWO PEOPLE DROWNED. GISBORNE, September 6. ! Heavy rain has been falling since 5 a.m. yesterday, and all the rivers of the district are flooded. i At Murawai 6.70 in of rain, had fallen between 9 a.m. yesterday and 1 p.m. to- | day. Coaches in various parts of the dietpiict had to put back owing to slips. There is a temporary stoppage of the borough water supply owing to a wash- . away in the pipe line. | Thomas Robinson, aged 18, a stranger , to the district, was crossing the Gold j Creek, at the head of the railway works, ! to get a cow. His horse stumbled and fell, and he was washed down the creek. The body has not been recovered. A man named M'Kenzie, the owner of a butcher's shop at the Otoko railway works, wias drowned this afternoon. The diriver of his cart refused to cross a, 6tream opposite the slaughterhouse, whereupon Mr M'Kenzie said he would drive the horse He attempted to do so, but the horse, cart, and driver were swept away, and have not been eeen ' 6ince.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 64
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206RAIN IN POVERTY BAY. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 64
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