BIG LANDSLIDE IN WELLINGTON.
'SPECIAL TO "THE PRESS.")
WELLINGTON, Slay I*2Heavy weather smote Wellington again for the second timo within ten days, steady rain commencing on Saturelay at noon, and turning to a violent southerly late at night, anel raging through* Sunday with violent rain squalls. It blew out during last night, anel to-day has been cold and fresh, with a bracing br<*o_o from tho south. Just outside Ngahaurangn railway station, in the direction of Wellington, the Hutt road runs close under a high cliff, part of which was cut away during the widening of railway and road. At twenty-five minutes past twelve today the wholo face of tho cliff bulgeel out, and an enormous fall of earth swept out over the Hutt roael, completely covering tho whole chain width, as far as tho fence dividing it from tho railway, for a distance of a hundred yards or so. Fortunately there was no traffic about on tho-road at that particular spot at tho time.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14665, 14 May 1913, Page 11
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