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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 15, Issue 2013, 13 December 1870, Page 2

Heavy Rain bas fallen since our last. It will seriously injure large quantities of hay, which in but few eases has Wen secured, as well as otherwise interfere ;^th" the operations of the season. The English Telegrams via San Francisco should be now. due. It was thought quite possible they would arrive last evening, but up to the closing of the.pffice, the steamer had^not made her appearance---at Nelson. Legal.— We are given to understand that Mr. H. D. Maddock, who arrived here by the s.s. llangatira, on her last trip from Wellington, intends to settle in Napier, and practice his profession as barrister and solicitor. Mr. Maddock, we believe, has been in practice in Dunedin for the last nine years, and was associated as partner with the present Attorney-General and Mr. E. P. Kenyon. Floods in Austeaiia.— Tho telegrams published in the Sydney Morning Het'ald from various parts of Australia report more disastrous floods at Windsor, West Maitland, West Eempsey, Grafton, and many othepplaces. At West Kempsey, pa Novembei? a 4, information came from the Bellinger and Nambuccra rivers, that the floods/were calamitous .at both places. A woman, named O'Rourke, and her two children were drowned at the JNambuoora. A.n immense amount of property was aw;opt away. The water rose higher than ever was known. There is great distress in , ; both places. Many persons liare Jeat ; . everything, and were rendered destitute. ■. y