Floods the South.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 21, 20 August 1886, Page 3

Floods the South.

Di kkdtk, August 18. The rain w has fallen almost uninterruptedly « Sunday is causing the heaviest flosknown here f..r years.* The lower pa the flat w under water, i inJ it is rejd that the new sewer | x mre ha« bu All the cellars in the c.l\ *r. tloe and several houses in | il i Ward a.ini.god. Railway communication uiplotelv suspended. Th inaclihouis of the newspaper . *..■. are fißi a depth of three i. t, the Tunes n«ng able to r.un]d<-ie its issue till ns noon. One house in Duncan str. eompletely wrecked by a fall of earth, i occupants forlui itsly w r» sleepiuxfio upper rooms. A large thri-e Kterey t>, belonging to Mr MeVarlane. i. ssly threatened. There are several landslips in the city ; , and at the u| n,l of tlie new Cargill !

r< >ad a ditch, i has cost about £IO,OOO, j has burst up Roth tKb sewers in Cavcr-liam ! wrs estensivtmaged. In ltiuid-aUeet | the waU r ro several warehouses t*. j the height t. In Sarg,nil's bund . about 4.W* enf drapery and g.-i , ral i goods are ded. It is the heaviest ram that ham for 38 years. The latests regarding the state of th.- T.u.ri is, effect that the t! lis still some fts w that of .oven -,,.ar- i ago. but the is still rising. Th, in habitants attain are in some consternation le. w hole townsf.ip should b* swept awrhe r.weri farmers gene“ally have ee.l stock to the high round. Ks Wen- prevalent that

Cs arUffc A was ut danger from I it si tin im Viiiowii irit without feun. In raiment, n and in Vfaiheimty the losa of st k as luen vonsti..' Messrs Muir llroa. 1 .St SOU. iMaluatJe. a<ld ah.-, n. and Mr ItoVrU Hnahy i’ark. IOSi. Sr, l'“T/ hl'» far record oil, altl.qgh ths l .iavu a number of narrow ••capes. Osusatt. August 18. Kn;n ha,| 1 , ,|. a.'.' .ut ha~L T 1 lying lands ar- roverwd ..lii sUvi-t.t. r, md miirh u ~i„.

tin been done to the lately sown grain. On tiie Killings t)i# potatoes have been washed out, and a large extent of country will have to tie re sown. Considerable mortality amongst the young lambs is , reported. CII tUSTCHcsciI. August 18. A serious lanJslip lavs tveenrrod at Pigeon Bay, completely wrecking Mr | May * bouse, which afterwar Is caught i f’ re - No lives were lost, al! the family managing to make their escajie. Kvi«ry iv.ustmice was rcnderi 1 bv the settlers, l’he mails on the Peninmna are impassible, and to-nicht great damage was f ared unless the rain abated. At 9 p.m. there was no sign of the Wanaka, which left Dunedin at 8 p.m. on Monday. This afternoon the weather was so thick at Lyttelton Heads that the sea was not visibln from the Pilot Station. As the Wanaka must have had a heavy sea and north-east wind againut her w ith a Idc shore, she ha* probably stood out to s' a, waiting for tl c w.atiier to clear. Captain Kennedy, of the steamer Ha’iroto. which arrived from Wellington this morning, i,tales that a tremendous sea was running on the coast. It is stiil raining heavily here.