THE SOUTHLAND FLOODS
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Invkrcargill, Monday. The flood waters hare gone down, and railway communication has been restored, although passengers have to put up with the inconvenience of crossing the breaks on the lines on foot), or by trollies. The express lostaboubam hour coming South, to-day. The losses of live stock are apparently heavy. At the Mataura Freezing Works, damage was done to the race which supplies the turbine, bub the paper mill escaped pretty well, being able to resume work to.day. The volume of water in the river is indicated by the fact that the Mataura Falls were obliterated fjr the time being.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 158, 7 July 1896, Page 5
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