DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.
(By Teleeraph.-Spccial Correspondent.) • ( ) . VVanfiartUi, August 2. .< Waugauui had a full: share of tho storm ■ affedtibg -.tbe Cook- Strait' coasts. ' Incessant J rain<fell on Sunday night, l and'a fierce, cold ;j southerly blew all. to-day,/.- The Warigauai River lias risen, slightly, but so far shows 'rio r.l sign of flood; . Tho Wangaehtf and Turakina . Eivers; are very high, .and'portions ; ,* valleys are undor .water, causing; ono : .-or, two J Email wash-outa on the railway,; Matarawa 1 Valley, near the town, is partly under.water. ! The' rainfall in tho town, yesterday-.was ,1.23 inches'in twenty-hour hours. '.-.All trains i arc running late.: /J ■ The vital statistics of this district, for-.the seven- months endedj.July 31 ? show:—296' ,'< -births.' ori 23- less than .-tho.; same period-of 'J 1903;. deaths, ,127, .or 30 more;; marnages, - 77, or 29 less, v.-v V: 1 ■ Some:unoertainty;provails in .the. Waverley j district M to the .ultimate ,fate.!pf Jlouma- •> halii State' 7 : Farm> and -.-residents -aro 'J asking, whether it .will be rctai»ed..in its pre-. < sent form I agricultural college on,; the .-farm „wil| bejgiyeri effect to. •-. ■---i-' -i »tp-
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 576, 3 August 1909, Page 7
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180DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 576, 3 August 1909, Page 7
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