THE WEATHER.
Per Press Association
AUCKLAND, October 27. A Taumarunui telegram states that a pasasniger train was stopped at Te Kuiti by floods, the rails for a distance of two miles being flooded. All traffic is stopped. NELSON, October 27. The almost continuous rain which has fallen this week culminated last night in a fierce downpour. Low-dying portions of the city are flooded, and the water iis in many cellars, and in Hardy Street and parts of Bridge Street up to the iback doors of shops and residences. Positions of tihe road crowns and some railway ballasting in Toitoi Valley have been washed away. The rivers are bank higjh. Business 'is suffering severely owing to the continuous and unusut wet weather. The damage from the flood is mot serious, though several poultry ihave been drowned and there have been narrow escapes of dairy cattle.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12639, 28 October 1905, Page 5
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144THE WEATHER. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12639, 28 October 1905, Page 5
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