STORMY WEATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 128, 1 June 1903, Page 2

STORMY WEATHER.

I Per Press Aisocialion. I Dunedin, May 29, The flo;d in the Tokmnairiro River ; to-day was tho heiviett since 1892, and j a good dea) of damage was done. Thi j north branch overflowed, nnd spread !cv.r the f.irms at Millbuni. One farmer had 500 sheep drowned, and there is water aound nuny sUtts. The wfttfr spread over the faims between Milton and Olarksville. The expresi got through in the morning, bus the I the train from Inwrcarg'U was blocked and tho paesertgots had to be conveyed from Olarksville to Miiton by vehioles. : It is not known yet whether traffic can be got through to-morrow. El-team, May 30. News has j'isfc bean received here to the effeot tint the bridge over thi Pataa River at Rukumoana, about i© J miles from Eltham, has baen washed jaway. The bridga was abcti 1 ; 60 feet ' Jong with concrete foundations. I JDuneDin, May 31. j Although a considerable (X'ent of ! damage sas done by the floods, in no particular instance Ims it besn serious. I Tho railway department was able to ' get pas<engira and mails through, and ' on the Dunedin section all r; pairs bad ! been effected ab «ut 8 pm. The dredges in> the Tuapska and Wbipori disj tricts suffered somewhat. The Taniwh* and Lawrence dredges a?e pracii-e-lly stranded, the flood watdts laving cut new chinaels cleir of the dredge", but both are expected to be at work 1 again towards the end cf this week.

' Under tho supervision of Mr J. Skinner and the County foreman, Mr ■ Holoofs, a gang of m>n were occupied . at high pressure all day on Sunday in pu'tiug in a t< mpor-ry culv-rt acresi the County r:ad a' the Hsnui .to take off the wa er nccumuhted in the Tannery pond through the collapse of the miin culvert. There was more thin one expert who consifesed the work could nob be done in a day, but it was, though it was well on in the evening j before the task was accomplished much i' to th« o edit of all hands. Mesdamss , J. Kibby, Jackson and R nnon kimlly I supplied refreshments on a liberal scale : [ for which the man were very grateful. I The trench w.s some nine feet deep * and the box culvert, which was made in ! lengths, covered about 100 feet,