THE FLOODS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5646, 25 March 1880, Page 2

THE FLOODS.

: Yesterday the rain abated both in town : and country, and there-ie good ground for i hope that wo have seen the worst. Clive was not quite :free from' water ! yesterday afternoon, but tho flood had ! greatly subsided, and by this mornimg we i expect that only tho land which is very '. low will be under water. ■JTrom. Hastings Constable Raymond reports that tho water ia draining away, though last evening part of the road to Haveloclc was niore than 2ft. under water. One of Grant's cbaches was nearly capsized in a bad part of the road, and a baker's car.t is. 1 stuck, in the same place. No damage worth recording has occurred at either Havelock or . Hastings. The , old . bed of tlie Ngaruroro is full of water, but has not overflowed. ' Waipukurau was yesterday left high . and dry by the receding flood. We hear ' that tho damage in that neighborhood is very slight, when the height of the flood is remembered. The reports of the damage at Porangahau .seem to have been greatly exag- ' geratod, for yesterday the constable there telegraphed, "No damage of serious ' nature as far as Wallingf ord. " The railway line has been so far repaired that it will be possible to sond the up-country mails this morning. On Friday no train will run beyond Hastings, but advantage will be . taken of the day to complete the necessary repairs, and if no more rain falls through trains to Kopua will run on Saturday. Mr Miller and the traffic fore- : man, Mr Brown, deserve great praiae for v the indefatigable manner in which they

pushed on tho repairs. They literally worked night and day, drenched to the skin the whole time, and they miist feel heartily glad that the weather has at last apparently cleared ilp. , . N, , Our Wqodyille crirr'esponderit teleR.raph§ : —We have had the highest flood that has been known here. On Sunday last 'it^ was at its height at the Gfdrge bridge", where it Was nearly sixty feet deep) reaching the ironwork oil the large spail of the bridge. The Jogs- coming down the river struck the bridge with such force as to make it shake so' much that it was feared the bridge would go, biit although it was seVerely shaken it •vvithstodd the shock. It is, however, shifted, so that it will require attending to. The other bridges on the Gorge road are completely washed away, and those on the road to Danevirk have the approaches and planking, etc, Washed dway. Several jteopid Had td leavij their hdmea, and "some arc reported to Have lost cattle, but accurate particular's are .not yet ascertainatil,e: The cdaches will iiot run ior' some time. . '. l Yesterday evening our Wairoa corres-: pbndent telegraphed that rain was still falling heavily there, and there was every r appearanee of " a Second deluge/ _ ,