FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.
A TOWNSHIP UNDER WATER.
A BOY DROWNED.
[by telegraph.—press association.] Dcnedin, Thursday. Heavy floods are reported ifrom Tapanui disfcricb owing to the melting of snow on Pomahaka.
The floods are the highest ever before known, and great damage bo property has token place. No loss of life is reported. Kelso township is several feet under water. Heavy rain fell in town all night. The weather here is now fine.
Invercarqill, Thursday. A warm rain last night molted the snow on the ranges and a heavy flood resulted. The trains were delayed on all the lines, the water being over the rail.*. It) is reported thab an industrial school boy in the service of Mr. Evans at Hokonui has been drowned in the Ofcapiri.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9490, 20 April 1894, Page 5
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