FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 263, 29 March 1913, Page 5

FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.

liIUCH DAMAGE INFLICTED. TRAIN SERVICES STOPPED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gore, Last Night. The Ensign's Lumsden correspondent wired at 3 p.m.:—The river is still rising and is now flowing through the lower part of the town. Xo sign of the rain abating. Several horsemen who managed to get through from Mossburn report that there are several washouts on the Mossburn line. Great losses of stock are likely in the low-lying country. Already sheep are coming down the river. A number of | residences have been partly submerged, I the occupants flitting to drier ground, j Telegraphic communication with Te Anau is suspended, the wires being down, j The Waikaka train, leaving Gore at 3.50, had to return, it being impossible to get past Maitland, owing to the floods. There is some doubt whether the express from Dunedin will get through to-night, owing to washouts on the line between Gore and Puk-erau. It is still raining, and the Mataura river is rising. I

HEAVY RAIN AT THE HERMITAGE. 10 INCHES IN 23 HOURS. Timaru, Last Night. The Mount Cook Hermitage reports a bigger Hood than occurred in Janaury, 10 inches have fallen in 22 hours and the gauge tiien was submerged. The hostel was invaded by water, and the tourist? are preparing to take to tents on higher ground. One ear bridge has gone, and the road is impassible generally. The floods come from the Mueller glacier through a gap in the old side of the moraine, and this time chunks of ice an coming away with the boulders. Steady ram has fallen in Timaru since 3 p.m. Fairlie and the Macknizie country report heavy and steady rain. A MAN DROWNED. SHEEP SUFFER SEVERELY. Invercargill, Last Night. Heavy rain commenced' falling on, Thursday and continued without intermission since. It has resulted in severe floods all over Southland. A young man named J. Walsh, who was driving with two brothers, named Dickson, at Hokonui. near Winton. was drowned throug htheir trap falling into the Otapiri River. The brothers managed to reach a small island, where they were marooned for some hours. The railway services are disorganised. The express train from Dunedin to-night could not get through owing to a wash- ' out at Pukerau ,and the train stop ped at Clinton. Some washouts of a serious nature occurred on the Otautau, Lumsden, Kingston, and Mossburn lines. Heavy losses of stock are feared, and reports show that dead sheep are being washed down bv the rivfers in hundreds.