Springfield.
Prom Springfield our correspondent writes that the snowstorm which commenced on Saturday gradually increased in severity through the whole of tiie night. Sunday, the whole day, and well in to the succeeding night, it abated no jot in violence, the wind and driving snow reaching at times to hurricane fierceness. Only that the snow partially melted as it fell the result would'have been very much more calamitous. As it is the telegraph line, so far as we have news on every side, is completely wrecked, the poles being in many instances snapped clean in two. The Bnow attained a depth generally of a foot, and in places where it formed into: drifts it was banked six and seven feet high.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6049, 4 October 1887, Page 2
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121Springfield. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6049, 4 October 1887, Page 2
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