EXTRAORDINARY TIDES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 136, 10 June 1891, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY TIDES.

ALARM IN DUNEDIN. BREACH IN THE SEA WALL. (BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION - . ) Dunedin, this day. Considerable alarm was caused on the flab on Monday by an extraordinary high tide and sea on the Ocean Beach, and in the afternoon ifc became evident that a breach would be made in bhe sand hills ab St. Kilda Road, close to the Central Battery. At half-pa?t four the sea had cub a channel through, and bhere was a strong stream flowing up the Sb. Kilda Road for aboub 800 yards, which spread on bo bbc low-lying grounds. This being bhe firsb experience of the kind, many of the inhabibanbs prepared bo leave their houses. As the channel was cub through within a shorb bime of high water, nothing serious happened. Steps were ab once taken bo dam the back water for the nexb tide by filling up the channel, and placing bags full of sand as a protector. Ab Sb. Clair bhe remaining portion of bhe sea wall has disappeared, and mosb of bhe EsDlanade has been washed away. The next high tide will probably see several sections of the land swallowed up, as there is nothing but a line of sand hills, now rapidly being eaten away, between the ocean and Sb. Kilda, South Dunedin, and parb of Caversham. Residents and property owners are very considerably alarmed. The tides yesterday caused bub litcle damage ab Ocean Beach. Ab Sb. Clair bho whole of the broad Esplanade right up to the building line has been washed away.