(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CHRISTCHURGH,, 30th June.

Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1879, Page 2

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CHRISTCHURGH,, 30th June.

Heavy floods have cccumd in the northern part of the province. There h»s been nothing so bad since 1868. In the Ohalra district boats tre .employed to get tbe residents out of the houses. A number of cattle and hones have been drowned. The railway line, north and south, has been damaged. Notices state that the traflb between Rangifata and Oxford is suspend td, also between Selwyn and Waitaki. On the White Cliffs branch tbe flood was purely caused by rain. The snow rivers hare now risen. The French barque B. L. j<. St. Malo, from San Francisco to Lyttelton, with bßrley, 97 days out, was wrecked on Saturday night, on tbe beach at New Brighton. All hands were taved. There is five feet of water in her hold. Dunbbin, 30th June. Tbe rain did a good deal of damage in tha city. South Dunedin and tbe flat are almost » holly mbmerged. The railway traffic loath

of Mosgiel and north of Blueskin is interrupted byieavy landslips. * This Day. The floods have injured the newly-con-structed water-race at Malvern to the extent \>f £1200 or £1500. The Akaroa and Wainui Road Board will suffer to the extent of some thousands of pounds by the loss of badges and Injury to the road by Saturday night's gale and floods. The Peninsula has not been \isited by such floods within the memory of the ohiest French residents. *