By to-day (Monday) the city is fairly free of water, and it is fervently hoped there will be no return. Considerable damage has been caused by the fall of mud-walls, both of houses and compounds, and the loss of stock has not been small. As yet we have heard of no cases of loss of life, but when the tale of washed out cesspools and filled up wells has been fully told it will not improbably outnumber the score of fatalities from drowning, Sth August.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.