FLOODS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5731, 28 October 1905, Page 5

FLOODS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, October 27. A Taumanmui telegram states that a passenger train was stopped at Te Kuiti by floods, rails for a distance of two miles being flooded. All traffic has been stopped. NELSON, October 27., Almost continuous rain has fallen this week, culminating last night in a fierce downpour. Loy-lying portions of the city aro flooded. There is water in many collars. and in Hardy street and parts of Bridge street it is up to the back doors of shops and residences. BAD WEATHER IN CANTERBURY. CHRISTCHURCH, October 27. Rain in North Canterbury has been continuous sinco Wednesday. Tho rivers last night and this morning were in flood.

At Plaxton. where tho overflow from the Eyre had spread from the north branch of the Wairaakariri, the farms were inundated a couple of feet on the west side of the railway line, and the flood was finding a way through openings of the line to farms at Camside. One field which had just been ploughed a second time for a wheat crop, was under water. The flood brought down a cow and some ewes and lambs were seen passing down tho river with quantities of debris. Floods have also occurred in the Lake Ellesmere district, and torrents of water were yesterday falling down the gullies between the hills in that locality. Numerous streams of flood water intersected the main road.