SEA ENCEOACHMENTS AT DUNEDIN.

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7033, 9 June 1891, Page 3

SEA ENCEOACHMENTS AT DUNEDIN.

CONSIDERABLE ALARM. Per United FreßS Association. Dcnedin, Jane 8. Considerable alarm waa caused on the flat to-day by the extraordinary high tide and sea on at Ooean Beaoh, and in the afternoon it became evident that a breach would be made in the sand hills at St Kilda road, close to the Central Battery. At 4,30 the sea had cut a channel through, and there was a strong stream flowing up the St Kilda road for about 800 yards, which spread on to the low lying ground. This being the first ' experience of - the kind man; of tha inhabitants proposed to leave their houses; As the channel was out through' within a short time of high water, however, nothing serious happened. Steps were at once .taken to dam back the water for the next tide by filling up the channel and placing bags full of sand as a protection. At St Clair the re- , maining portion of the sea wall has; disap-, peared, and most of the esplanade. has b«en. : washed; away, and the next high": tide will probably see several sections of land swallowed up, as there is nothing but a line of sandhills, ...• now rapidly being eaten awayV between the ocean and St Kilda. South Ducedih and part of the Caversham, residents and property owners are "very considerably alarmed.