The Floods on the West Coast.
(Per Press Association.)
Wesitort, March 11. The heavy rain that fell on Monday and yesterday brought down a big flood, and the river was running nearly bank*high at Addison's flat. Great damage was done, the injury to the Shamrock claim alone being estimated at £1500, and other claims are damaged to the extent of £1500. Two bridges on the road to Charleston have been washed away.
No news has been received from up country, but it is expected the roads will have suffered.
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Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8607, 11 March 1897, Page 2
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