FLOODS IN SOUTH.
(Per Press Association.) Christohurcb, last night. The rain in North Canterbury has been " continuous oinoe Wednesday, and the rivers last night and this morning were in flood. At Flaxton, where the. overflow from the Eyre bad spread from the .north* branoh of the Waimakariri, the farms were mandated a couple of feet on the west side of the railway line, and the flood was finding a way through the opening of the. line to-the farms. At Cainside one 7 field which has just been ploughed a seoond time for a wheat crop was under water. The flood: brought down a oow, and some ewes and iambs were seen passing down ths river with quantities of debris. Floods have also ooourred in the Lake Ellesmere distriot, and torrents of water were yesterday falling down the gullies between the hillsjin that locality. Numbers of streams of flood water also intersected the main road.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1596, 28 October 1905, Page 2
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154FLOODS IN SOUTH. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1596, 28 October 1905, Page 2
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