LATE STORMY WEATHER DOWN SOUTH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 10018, 1 June 1894, Page 2

LATE STORMY WEATHER DOWN SOUTH.

NUMEROUS SLIPS ON RAILWAY LINE. TERRIBLE STORM AT WOODVILLE. Owing to the excessive rainfall on Monday and Tuesday last in the Palmerston North district, considerable damage was done to railway lines, with the consequent interruption to traffic. Numerous slips occurred in the Manawatu Gorge, and no trains got through on Tuesday. The express train from New Plymouth was stuck up at Halcombe. On the Welling-ton-Eketahuna line a large slip occurred between Mangamahoe and Mauriceville, and the train from Wellington could not get beyond the latter station. The subsidence was due to heavy rain and has made tha line impassable for heavy traffic near Halcombe. A terrible storm was experienced at Woodville on Monday night, when nearly two inches of rain fell. Heavy slips are reported to have taken place at the Manawatu Gorge, and trains were unable to get through. Wellington, June 1. — As soon as the wind fell on Thursday rain set in, and continued all night. BODY OF MR. F. A. FORD'S SON FOUND. [per press association.] Gishornb, June 1. — The body of the boy Charlie Ford (the sou of Mr F. A. Ford, late of New Plymouth), who was reported to be missing a fortnight ago, was found floating in. the river. He must, as was supposed, have fallen off the breakwater.