DAMAGE TO THE MANAWATU GORGE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14015, 21 September 1909, Page 2

DAMAGE TO THE MANAWATU GORGE.

Per Press Awcciatioa. ' PALMERSTON N., Sept. 82. Heavy. rains have fallen to-day, especially in the watershed. The afternoon train from Woodville- got throuobk but alter it had passed there was a fie slip £n the middle of the Gorge, wJuelL came, down in the midst of such hoejrj r«in that the moo were oompelkd to. l«»^« n- The train, which should ham reached nere from Dannevirke. was. stopped at WopdvUle, . and the train, from here to WoodvUl* returned from: Ashhurst. As it is impossible to tell tb» extent of the damage at present, it is. not known whether communication «*« be restored, by morning. The aUps ar* too bad for passengers to be transferred. The rivers' are rising.