WELLINGTON.
This day>
France Amoor, one of the hard labor gens, was tilled this morning by a fall of eai'ih whjle .working at an excavation near tue college. ||pe 'was sentenced, in October to twetre-inoßtOT^fcyi^iiijjr^S^dJ leaves a wife and family.; v v "i G-^eat Floods ia Wellington. Eketahuna, March 22. j Eain fell in a continuous downpour since Friday morning. The country and j riyers are badly flooded, especially the Buamahunga, and all communication southwards is cut »off. The upper country and a Maori settlement if com* pletely flooded, and tho punt was washed away, and is not yet secured. Serious damage was done to the main road through landslips. At the Scandinavian camp, the road is submerged for miles, and a portion was believed to be washed away.' Carpasses of whole flocks of sheep and great numbers of horses and cattle have been seen floating down the river. March 24.' The weather is slightly better, but the rain was steady with high wind which blew a quantity of timber down across theroads. The wind has now fallen, and the coach which was imprisoned hew since Friday made an attempt to proceed toWoodfilli to-day.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3510, 25 March 1880, Page 2
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194WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3510, 25 March 1880, Page 2
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