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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 11

A Wellington man states that Hammond's aerial "flight ia the Britannia caused a tremendous commotion among the live stock up north. ' As the biplane buzzed "along at the low altitude of 150 feet, the cowij careered along their paddocks m tlie v best Spanish , bull-fight stj'le, 'horses were bolting, .roostevs crowing, and hens cackling like mad. Aucklanders had tho seiisa tiop, of their lives.^ Extraordinary local rainfalls were reported m the Waihao and. Geraldine districts on Monday; as well as at Fairlie. A thunderstorm crossed . the country from Waitaki to Mount Four Peaks, pouring down huge volumes of water. At Four Peaks chimneys were cracked by lightning and a. number damaged by storm water. The river at Waihao Falls rose eight feet m. an hour, and at Willowbridge, where. the .channel, i§ wide, the water rose dx feet. Anotner great; rainfall occurred to-day on the lino a few miles neater the coast, a- great mass of stoiinwater crossing Fairlie between Winscdinbe'and, Albury. A washout 'at a narrow,guUy tus<L*horth of , the Waihao. briagle blockjed railjway traifto. Th!_ first expresses noi'th and south, met there and exchanged passengers and mails, th©-, transfer taMijffr ' tfhree, hoW_». -The, south, train •-. reached Timaru at' b.IQ in-. stead of 1.30 p.m. . .' - „