FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.
(Per Press Association.)
MASTERTON, last night. Nearly six inches of rain has fallen m Masterton during the past two days. The floods still continue, and the mail coaches are still unable to reach Masterton. An attempt* was made to bring mails to Masterton from Carswell's •by pack-horees, but owing, to the state of the roads and the rivers the attempt was a failure. In the Lower Valley a large area of tlie country is flooded. The stock had been removed to the liigher country before the floods came on.
WELLINGTON, last night. So' far the railways m Wellington district have suffered little damage by the heavy rains of the last few days, and no interruption to traffic is anticipated. NAPIER, last night. The rain has ceased for the present, though the weather is still unsettled. Reports from the country districts show that the waters m the rivers, is subsiding slowly m most places, and no serious trouble is anticipated,' unless a further heavy rainfall is experienced.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10962, 3 May 1907, Page 1
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