THIRTY-SIX HOURS' RAIN
TRAINS DELAYED [N THE SOUTH. NO SIGN OF CLEARING. Ibt telbgbafh— press association.} 1 INVERCARGILL, This Day. Continuoue rain has fallen for thirty, six hours over the greater part of Southland, and rivers are flooded. _ Between Gore ami M'Nab the railway line is under water, and the first express was unablo to get through So Dunedin. There is a washout; on the Waikaka branch, and Nightcaps and Lumsdeu trains were delayed owing 1 to encroachment of water on the line. No stock losses are reported. There are no signs ->f the Weather cleartig ' _---_««-~_~-_-_-
The steamer in Melbourne which was recently placed under offer to the New Zealand Trawling and Fish • Supply C6mpany did not come up to require* ments, and Mr R. S. Alward, the general manager of the company, returned to the Dominion yesterday without entering into any arrangements for the purchase of another vessel.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 105, 30 October 1913, Page 7
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