DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3004, 1 October 1878, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Monday.

A meeting of the Harbour Board will be held to-morrow to ratify the agreement made with Mr Proudfoot to accelerate the dredging contract.

A sewer in Hope street fell in today while a man named Ancell was working on the top of it. A board protected him, and when, after two hours, he was rescued it was found that the breaking of a leg was the most serious injury he had sustained. |

The Secretary of the Acclimatisation Society has received information of a shipment from Glasgow, on the 10th of September, of a quantity of black game for Otago.

Fresh telegrams from the country con* firm the accounts of the' great damage done by floods.' The Dunedin train to-day could not proceed beyond Lovell's Flat, in consequence of the rise of the Kaitangata Lake. Four miles of railway were under water at noon. No deaths are reported so far. Later. This day. The following further reports of the j floods hare been received:— j . Ceomwell, 29th, 5 p.m. There has been awful destruction of property. Horses, cattle, houses, furniture have been drifting past all day. The Clyde, Bannockburn, and Bendigo bridges have gone. Cromwell bridge is just safe unless the flood increases the water to. the top of the piers. Two lives are reported as lost, but, communication is interrupted in every direction. Dwellings on the Block of Cromwell are in immediate danger. Roxbubgh, 5 p.m. The river has been rising all day. At about half-past three a portion of the Clyde bridge came in contract with the Roxburgh bridge, causing it to show signs of giving way. About this time the river rose more rapidly, and the space under the arch closing up caused bridge to catch a large quantity of timber com* ing down the stream. At 4 o'clock the bridge broke in the centre, going away like a large shipi.

Alexandra, 5 p.m. There is a tremendous flood to-day. The Clutha is seven feet higher than the greatest height reached on Thursday and ia still rising, the water just touching

Theyrs' store. Considerable alarm is felt for the safety of the township. The river is covered with wreck of all descriptions. The wreck of the Clyde-bridge passed here.