CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6] — Page 650

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the 31st wherever the sewer trafes got choked with sand and the legitimate chan- nel of escape deburred, the water overflowed in- andating the streets a

And

making deep ruts in such

a

wary

to lay bare

gas and water pipes.

In some streets the sewers

burst

from

the pressure

of water in theño; in Centre

Street where this occurred.

a

chasm, & feet deep was

left along the middle of

the sheet.

Most of the Island.

telegraph lines

-jured;

twire

in

some posts bring

blown down and the

wires severed.

The

roads out of

Victoria

641

"Victoria have suffered severely

from landslips, especially the new Road lately opened from Shet ́s to cope D'aquilar Light house, and which from

the steepness of the hill slopes

on which it is built has been

in places nearly obliterated.

The Cemeteries at Happy Falley have expecially suf-

- fered, monuments and)

head stones were knocked.

down, trees and shrubs.

up.

- pooled and both turfing and paths destroyed by-

the

enormous.

place.

volume of

you the

water which swept.

The Praya wall has suffered very slighttig in.

dud

owing

to the direction.

of the gale and to the

absence.