EAST COAST DELUGED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 72, 25 March 1914, Page 5

EAST COAST DELUGED.

A PHENOMENAL RAINFALL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Tuesday. Heavy rain has fallen over the eastern seaboard "from the East Oa-pe to Mania Peninsula. At Gisborne the total for the month has reached 5.60 in., which is the greatest quantity of rain that has fallen for any one month during the past two years. Owing to a washout on the railway to-day the train (for the north could not get beyond Otoko, a small country centre, and lady passengers ihad to De accommodated in the. Tailway station, "While the men of the paTty had to accommodate themselves in tjhe railway care. A temporary railway 'bridge across the Waapaoa River, on the line to Xapier, in couree of construction, was carried away to-night. The rain continue? steadily, and at ■Motu seven inches fell in 24 hours. The Tirrangamii River, on which the port is built, is running high, and all vessels have been double moored. A crisis i≤ expected in the harbour when the tide comes in aibout midnight. Two launches moored in the har.bour were swept away out to sea. to-night. FLOOD WATERS SUBSIDING. GISBORNE, this day. The floods in 'Waipaoa River arp. subsiding. Beyond the breaking of the Public Works temporary bridge, no damage hae been done at Motu, though the "flood is the 'highest experienced foT ■ years. A Teport from Port Awanui states that the Waiapu River is in heavy flood, and is causing loss of sheep, but the extent of the damage & not yet known. The .water is nearly up to tie decking of the Wa,ia.pu 'bridge, and both approaches have been washed away. The river is now going down.