' ■ THE DISASTROUS FLOODS AT h ' TAHITI. I The 8.8, Richmond, which arrived in 3 Auckland the other day, brought the fol- > lowing particulars of the recent un--5 paralleled rainfall there, which resulted t in great loss of life and destruction of - property:— According , to the expectation ; of weatberwiae old residents, the long - drought which had prevailed for some 0 seven months presaged an exceedingly n heavy duwnfall of rain when it did break a up, and these anticipations were more 1 than realised by the occurrence of the >•' greatest floods that have Leen known c since the occupation of the croup liv i. Earopeanß. The rain first began to f.iil c about March 4, and continued with but a intermittent stoppages for about ten days n cansing the roads to be rendered almost i- impassable, and doing great havoc to , crops, houses, &c. It was not till the n 17th March that the storm attained the b • height of its fury, for on that date a fierce >r,. gsleset in accompanied -by a regular ie deluge of rain, which in a few hours corny pietfy "iwraFpo; » th« city to the 'depth. '. r " '
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8335, 11 April 1889, Page 3
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192Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8335, 11 April 1889, Page 3
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