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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 211, 20 April 1877, Page 9

About half-past twelve o'clock on Wednesday, 3rd January, the sea along the coast at Wicklow was observed to ris.3 beyond its usual height. About an hour afterward nearly the whole borough was submerged, the waves breaking over some of the houses. One house was completely levelled, and the furniture carried away. The inhabitants of the houses in Strand-street had to take refuge in the upper stories. Along the quay a strange sight presented itself. Timber was floating about in all directions and swept out to sea, one merchant losing about J350 worth. Several broaches are reported in the line of railway ne?r Newcastle, and no trains can get past. The two o'clock train from Dublin was stopped at Kilcool, and all the up trains remained at Wioklow. Such a rising of the sea has never before occurred at Wicklow. We learn that Mr. MeLbkey. of Rattray-street. is c'eariiig off hU first -cUbs stock of boots uud shoos at unpreuelemedly low mte<. Th« stlo will lust for a month, and affords an opportunity to economical heads of homo* of laying in a supply of c ipital shoe-leather for tb» winter.