DELUGE BANISHES FOUR-YEAR DROUGHT

Manawatu Times, 25 March 1926, Page 9

DELUGE BANISHES FOUR-YEAR DROUGHT

Floods Thsatened, Railways Held-up

TORRENTIAL RAIN OVER AUSTRALIA

{By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday, 8.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 24.

Torrential rain, accompanied by heavy gales, has fallen throughout the State. Flood warnings have been issued.

Similar heavy falls are reported in Queensland, while advice from Adelaide records terrific falls and huge areas of country under water.

The railway service is disorganised, and it will be a fortnight before trains are able to roach Oodnadattea. Tire drought, which in some cases has lasted four years, has been definitely banished, even Alice Springs district being inundated. WELLINGTON GETS A DRENCHING. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Two and a-half inches of rain fell in the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. to-day. It was fine but cold and windy this morning. The wind changed from north to south between midnight and 1 a.m., and in that hour eighty points of rain fell. ENGLAND’S GREATEST SON APPEAL FOR SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL THEATRE. [By Electric Cable— Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, March 24. The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre has launched a world wide appeal for £260,000 to rebuild the burnt theatre and provide a perpetual endownment. The party leaders, Messrs. Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald ana Lord Oxford signed a letter to the press of the world pointing out that it has been possible to see eight different plays in a single week at the theatre and the beneficial work was acknowledged by the King’s grant of a Royal Charter, but a theatre adequate fifty years ago was inadequate for spectators from all parts of the Empire who attend Shakespearian festivals. Millions of Shakespeare lovers in the Dominions and the United Sraltes will be eager to help in rebuilding and endowing the theatre on a worthy scale.