THE RIVER SUBSIDING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 187, 9 August 1893, Page 5

THE RIVER SUBSIDING.

DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

The floods in the Waikato district through the heavy rains and the overflowing of tho Waikato and Waipa rivers, are stated to have caused a great deal of damage to property. Along the Waipa, from its junction with the'Waikato, atNgaruawahia, a greab deal of property has been damngod by the rising of the waters, and in tho vicinity of Mercer and other places on the Lower Waikato, settlers have been flooded out, and their houses and farm property very much injured. The Waikato river is now stated to be slowly subsiding. Yesterday the Waipa at Ngaruawahia was three inches higher than ib was in the great flood of 1875, and the flood marks on the Waikato bridge there show tho water to bo only 19 inches lower than the flood of that year. At Hamilton tho river was within 8 or 9 feet of the height of tho flood of 1875. Mr Dickenson's browery, close to the rivor at Hamilton, was severely damaged by the flood. Mr John Martin, a well-known settler near the Waipa, had to vacate his home, the water being from four to five feet deep in the lower rooms. The floods in the Waipa have carried away Messrs Manders' flax factory near Whatawhata.

Through train communication between Auckland and the Waikato has not yeb been restored, bub the railway authorities hope to be able to get the train through from Mercer to Huntly in a day or so. Yesterday, the down train from Hamilton got as far aB Huntly, whence passengers and mails wero brought down by steamer to Mercer. The line between Taupiri and Huntly, and also between Mercer and Pokeno, is now clear. Numerous, landslips have occurred on the Oxford-Rotorua railway works.