HEAVY GALES AND FLOODS AT NAPIER.
fßy TEtBGBJ.pn.I " . Napisb, June 8. r 3ho heavy rain during Ilio last few day ' has caused the moat serious flood* experience* ' for years. The whole country round Nupie i» under water. Tho residents of Ciive am ' Meanee diitricU bay« had to ba removed,, ii 9 boat*. All tbe rivers have overflowed thei ' baoks, suspending vehicular trafllo, and notic is given of Ihe tuipeniion of railway tr»ffi< ' should the rain continue, as the embankmes 1 near Waitaogi is being. washed away. Th< County Council recently called the attentioi 1 of the Government to the dang>r of this em ' bankmrnt from tbe alteration m tbo course o the Ngaruroro river. Ihe schooners Frank Guy, Mary Wadley and Silver Clond, lying m tbe roadstead, ban had to slip their anchors and beat out. Thej appear to hare got well to lea. A heavy tur: 1 is breaking on the beach. ■ There are signs of the stoppage of the rain though the wind keeps high. No loss of lifi ia reported, and the losses of" stock is beliared to be'imall, tbe settlers. haviDg anticipated th( floods and driven the animals to highei ground. ■ .
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Timaru Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2407, 9 June 1882, Page 3
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195HEAVY GALES AND FLOODS AT NAPIER. Timaru Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2407, 9 June 1882, Page 3
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