CLUNES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1099, 9 November 1869, Page 3

CLUNES.

(from the " Ballarat Star.") Thousands of pounds worth of property has been destroyed by the late flood, to say nothing of the utter destitution and misery which have fallen on numbers of families through the household goods, and clothing of themselves and their helpless little ones having been swept away by the remorseless waters, and left amid all the fury of the storm to find food and shelter as best they might. Happily, though there were many narrow escapes, no lives were lost, there being no lack of brave and daring men ready and willing to jeopardise their own lives to rescxie others. William Blake and Thomas Duke, employees of the Port Phillip Company, were rescued by the aid of ropes, through the daring of two men named John Harvey and Phillip \Parsons. On the northern bank of the creek a woman and three children were rescued by cutting through the roof of the house in which they had taken refuge. Another woman was picked off the roof of her hut on the partial subsidence of the flood, by Mr. C. Murray of Kingston and Smeaton.