SOUTH CANTERBURY DISTRICT. Timaru, August 12.
Rain has been falling continuously here since Thursday afternoon, and all the rivers are now in a flooded state. The approaches to nearly all the rond bridges have been swept away. The South express was two and a-half hours late reaching here on Saturday owing to a serious break at Pareora bridge, two miles north of St. Andrewa. At this bridge the passengers and mails had to be sent across by trolly. The workmen are busy to-day repairing the damage, but as the river is still rising the work is one of great difficulty, Sheen nave, suffered terribly in
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the Mackenzie" country, and the loss among lambs on the low-lying lands will also be great,
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Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 14
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122SOUTH CANTERBURY DISTRICT. Timaru, August 12. Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 14
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