AUCKLAND.
May 20. FLOODS. There are great floods up couutry. Telegrams fromDrury state at ; Kunia logs have been tossed up into paddocks, wire fencing, covered with grass and rushes washed up against them. Bridges collapsed on the Great South Road, which were repaired the other day bythe County Council. Slippery Creek Bridge was washed entirely out of the district. FIGHTING AT THE ISLAND OF ": -.'■-: •■'.'. aH.) MaJUKA. I The . Belle' Brandon, from Marshall .Crr.oup,. reports continued fighting at the Island of Majura. Several native men and women were killed. ; THE. PPvEMIER AND NATIVE j "" ' MINISTER, j , The , Premier leaves to-morrow • for Wellingto-i the' Hon Mr Sheehan will probably accompany him. ■
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 4046, 21 May 1879, Page 2
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