RAIN STILL FALLING IN MARLBOROUGH.
MAIL DIFFICULTIES.
(Per United Press Association.) BLENHEIM, May 10 Rain is still falling intermittently, but the rivers have fallen considerably. A party left Blenheim on Sunday for Christchurch, but was stopped at Ward, and returned from Ward yesterday, the 34 miles occupying the whole day. The party confirms tho serious damage done to the Clarence bridge and to the approaches of tho Ure bridge. The Flaxbourne bridge is quite safe. It was reported that the Hapuku bridge was washed away, but this Jacks confirmation. Mails which were held up at Tuamariha were brought to Blenheim yesterday afternoon by a six-horse wagon. The water was up to the horses’ girths. About half a dozen passengers came from Tuamarina to Blenheim On tho wagon. A return mail was sent out by wagon at 7.15 this morning from Blenheim, . In a paddock close to Spring Creek Station Mr A. Vickers lost 400 sheep. All the houses at the Maori pa are inundated.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18859, 11 May 1923, Page 8
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