LANDSLIP ON THE WAIKATO LINE.
THE RIVER IS FLOOD.
[by telegraph.— own CORRESPONDENT.] Hamilton, Tuesday. The passenger train from Auckland to-day was delayed through a heavy landslip between Huntly and Taupiri, which occurred this morning just in time to prevent the goods train from Waikato getting past. The passenger train to Auckland in the morning had only passed the spot a few minutes before the slik took place. The water is still rising about Mercer. At Ngaruawahia yesterday the iiood was only three feet lower than in the year of the great flood, 1875. The train due at Hamilton this afternoon at half-past two p.m. was nearly three hours late.
Huntly, Tuesday. A slight breach having taken place in tho railway at the culvert near Collin's, Taupiri, the train was delayed here in consequence. Repairs having been effected, the trains proceeded south at half past three p.m. The river is in high flood.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9268, 2 August 1893, Page 4
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