FLOTSAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1915, Page 3

FLOTSAM.

UK W-LLUJnGT'.ON" BEACHES. liy Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington. Last Night. t 'J'iie lieaches at l.yall tiay. llou;;hton Bay, and Island Day have presented an extraordinary appearance since Sunday. Knormou.s quantities of timber of all s!s;es, some of it very long; In-e trunks, have been washed ashore. Those who first saw it drifting in, in more or less compact masses, thought for some time that I hey could see rafts, and concluded thai there had been a shipwreck. I'hc timber appears, however, to be llotsam carried into the sea by [loodetl rivers. Qua itities of pumice have al>o tlouted ashore. and it is reported Hut the car-e-use* (if two or three horses and cows, and soni'' tools and tins of kero.si-ne arc anions lhe debris, It is considered probable Hint the recent Nomls in the \\\,u.iiouui and and perhaps <lu- rivers were responsible ■ the sea with the litter, and ■ having drifted through the Strait, . . Jiot-anj has been driven ashore by I cm; southerly winds and the current. numbers of people have profited by the unexpected harvest that the sea lias brought, and housewives have, yot firewood for months ahead. Kven die benzine tanks of motor launches have been replenished from the rescued tins..