THREE DAYS ON A FENCE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2568, 14 June 1881, Page 3

THREE DAYS ON A FENCE.

The following rather startling adventure by flood and field is narrated in an Australian contemporary as occuring during the recent flood at a place called the Six-mile Gate, leading to a certain station. It appears that a man and his wife passed through, and reached the above locality on the day the rain commenced. He bad his wife and goods in a spring-cart and crossed a bend of the river to be near water. The rain poured down. He could not find his horses. He was caught between the arms of the creek. On the next night the cart began to sway about in the water and finally began to float. He thought it time then to shift. First ho carried his wife, swimming about twenty } T ards and wading the rest, and deposited her on high ground on the top of a fence. Next he swam with the child, Then he carried off some clothing and provisions, and at last lashed the dray to a tree. He and his family lived on the fence until the third day, when the water subsided.