FLOODS IN THE NORTH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 16 February 1907, Page 5

FLOODS IN THE NORTH.

CYCLONE ON EAST COAST. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, February 15. The Talune arrived from Gisborne, this morning, sixteen hours late. She encountered a gale of a cyclonic nature yesterday morning. As land -was not visible, the vessel hove to for fourteen hours, after which the i weather cleared. , Heavy rain at times obscured the sea. The Wanaka, due from Gisborne, .-■yesterday morning, had not been sighted at ten o'clock. DAMAGE NEAR DARGAVILLE. i)ARGAVILLE, February 15. The rainfall for sixty hours totalled ?5.20 inches. Dargaville main road is <jompletely flooded, but no damage ihas been done. The river is still rising in the upper portions. , T*ain communication with Kaihu is cut off, the line for miles being .submerged three feet. The booms r a nd railway siding at Trounson's mill . have been carried away. Several railway bridges are reported to be damaged. The train this morning proceeded four miles, and through, communication is not expected to be restored for a week. A young man, named Paul Langton, twenty years of age, was drowned in the Tangowhine River. He was washed away on horseback. 'The body has not been recovered.