TERRIBLE FLOODS AT THE THAMES.
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT SEVERAL THOUSAND POUNDS. [_PEK PHESS ASSOCIATION.] Thames, This day. There were heavy floods here on Monday night and Tuesday, and heavy wind and rain for over sixty hours almost incessantly. Tho streets were knee deep in water. The Karaka stream overflowed tho shops in tho vicinity, and inundated them. The stocks ■were much damaged. The Orphanago bridge was carried away, as well as a number of smaller ones; also 4000 logs were brought down to booms. It is the severest flood ever known here. The Kauaeranga River also overflowed its banks in several places, causing great damage to property, and covoring about thirty acres of land, to a depth varying from six inches to two feet. The loss is estimated at several thousand pounds, bnt it cannot be yet accurately ascertained.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4913, 13 May 1887, Page 3
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