LEESTON.
The weather in this district still con* tinues stormy. On Tuesday it rained incessantly all day, but towards evening cleared up a little. On Wednesday morning it rained- harder than it has yet done, bringing down all the creeks in the neighbourhood. The township is half under water. Near the hotel the water ia from 6in to 18in deep on the road. Eeports to hand from the country are very distressing. The young lambs are being drowned wholesale. 3he low-lying land towards Lake Ellesmere is nearly all under water, and those who thought they were fortunate enough to get their crops in in J-sly now wish they had not, as many of them will be completely destroyed. »
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5701, 19 August 1886, Page 3
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118LEESTON. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5701, 19 August 1886, Page 3
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