THE WEATHER

Evening Star, Issue 16550, 9 October 1917, Page 4

THE WEATHER

OVER AN INCH OF RAIN LAST NIGHT. MORE OF fT~FORETOLD. Late yesterday evening the rain came down very heavily at intervals. Mr laulm measured the downfall at one inch from 8 a.m. yesterday to S a.m. to-day. The City Engineer reports in the Leith Valley. Most of it fell in the night. This morning the clouds lifted and the rain ceased. But Mr Paulin's forecast is not verv cheering. He tells of S.E. to S.W. winds, with heavy rain. A n «mber of small slips are reported in and about the town. The most serious is the collapse of the stone wall at the side of Dr Colquhoun's residence; it has fallen into.Clark street. x Another slip of some consequence is in Ban- street, Kaikorai Vallev. An irrigation raco along the top ofßotting's paddock overflowed in such bulk as to bring a lot of the surface of the paddock into the roadway. THE TAIERI. The Silverstream is up to between the oft and 7ft mark. The Tnieri River is about a foot below the mark of a fortnight ago. At Owhiro the river is° level with its bank. The plain has still considerable flood water round about Mosgiel and East Taieri. Maungatua has a fresh coating of snow. jSo roads in the county are blocked. MIDDLEMARCH. Our Middlemarch correspondent wires: The river is very full, and likely to continue so for some days—the creeks the same—owing to snow on the high country and intermittent showers. OUTRAM RAILWAY LINE FLOODED. OTHER LINES CLEAR, Tha train from Outram got through to Mosgiel this morning and returned to Outram, though there was 12iin of water on the lino in one part. This afternoon tho water had risen to 22in at 2 o'clock, and was still rising at the rate of per hour, so the afternoon train was cancelled.