Floods in the South.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2378, 20 August 1886, Page 2

Floods in the South.

Unitrd Press Association.

Dunedin, August 19. Fully half a mile of permanent railway near Greytown South has been carried away, The line in several places is under water. If slips, which are threatening,' occur it will he a week beforo traffic is resumed. The embankment at the River-side-breaking has saved Outram. - ' Chribtohuuch, August 19. The rain ceased about 11 last night, and the weather is now clearing. No important damage has been done by the floods, except to the Little River railway, a portion of which was washed away and will tako a week to repair.

Oamaru, August 19. It is still raining and there is no sitfn of it stopping. Railway communication" with the North is suspended, the morning train being unable to reach' tho "Waitaklßivor owing to the flooded state of the line, On the South line there is no communication much beyond Hampden, though it is hoped that the slips will be removed to-day. The railway bridge over the Maorewhenae river atDuntroon, on the Kurrow line, is partly washed away, stopping communication on that line. It is possible that tho bridge may collapse. Tho repairs will entail heavy expenses and traffic will bo suspended for some time. On the Ngapara branch line communication is still open but in places the wator is up to the rails. The sea last night, whioh was tho heaviest known hore for many years, caused a breach in tho breakwater two biooks forming tho top of the foundation being drove in, but the monolith remains in position. The damage is not of a serious nature and as the Boa is now modifying it is hoped that no further injury will be occasioned. Christohurrh, this day, Further details in reference to the .landslips at Pigeon Bay show that the wholo of Messrs Hay Bro.'s Annadale Station had been swept away. Mr flay'heard the slip coming about 9.15 a.m. on Wednesday. Ho called to the men to take out the four children. Mrs Hay also had to be carried out, and they ranasfaßt as they could for the road, Mr Thomas Hay stayed to see all out of the houso, and then ran himself, the slip nearly overtaking him. Another slip followed, shifting the chimneys, and setting fire to the house. Somo time after a third slip carried away the wholo of tho building into the sea and the creek. The slips came from tho top of the range, about one and a-half miles from the house. The beach and the bed of the creek are strewn with debris, and about twenty men are working to-day picking J up what thoy. could out of tho Bilt, Mr Hay estimates his loss at £BOOO, The weather is apain thick and rainy.