CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2005, 8 June 1875, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Monday.

Gale in Canterbury.

The storm of Saturday is admitted to be the severest experienced during the last fifteen or eighteen years. Keports of loss by wind and rain continued to come in from all quarters during yesterday. A number of residents in the flooded portion of the suburbs made holes into the main city brick drain in order to enable the water to draw away. The ringleaders are likely to get into trouble for doing so, as their part, of the district had no right to the use of the drain. ■' ; This day!

Further Particulars. During the storm on Saturday the schooner Wild Ware was also wrecked on the Ninety-mile Beach, but no lives were lost. From pieces of wreck and a boat picked up on the same beach it is also supposed that the Success, of Auckland, was wrecked, and, it is feared, all the crew drowned. A heavy snow storm occurred in the ranges on Saturday, and it took four days instead of two to get the West Coast mails through to Christchurch. Even then the coach had'to be left on the way and pack horses used. I '1 he roads on the Peninsula are in a .fearful state ftom land slips, the destructionof bridges, etc., by the same storm. k ]n the lower portions .of Christchurch the flood water .still remains from six "eighteen inches deep; , _".