LATEST TELEGRAMS.
[from our special correspondent.]
DUNEDIN.
This Day. The helf-yearly meeting of the Working Men's Club was held to-day. The l'eport allowed that the receipts, including refreshments £1244, ' and subscriptions £144, were £1550 ; Expenditure £1540, including £100 paid to sinking the fund on the building. Some citizens inspecting the reservoir on Sunday found a bag of kittens, three dead cats, and several dead dogs floating about on the suiface. March 29. A severe flood was experienced last night. For several hours before dayligtit the rain fell m torrents. The night was terribly dark, and the Corporation street lamps were extinguished just as the laborers started to clear the channels and open the traps. Luckily no one is reported as having been swept down the sewers. A large number of cellars were flooded, and some hundreds of pounds' worth of property destroyed. Some of the principal streets are badly damaged. The footpaths were covered this morning with tons of rubbish, and the Corporation carts and laborers are still busily employed cleaving off the debris.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 664, 31 March 1879, Page 2
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