WEATHER IN THE NORTH.

Mataura Ensign, 19 July 1906, Page 3

WEATHER IN THE NORTH.

AI TElt Till: DELUGE. Per United Press Association. J GISROKNE. .Inly I-. Tli.. plains of Poverty Day present.-.! n pitiable aspect to-day. Tin' Hood waters have steadily subsided, but lijrht rain was falling, with occasional breaks. No fatalities have been repordtl. and all reason for anxiety now seems past. It will take some time to fully ase.rtain the losses. Where the water has subsid.-d there is a mverina- of silt over a larire area. At Patutahi all the yoimsr men turned out in fon'e on horseback ami procceiled to houses that were in immediate .humor, and in this trav several laiuiles were relieved. The ' waters eov.-r.-d the township, the people havimr to wade to their knees to yet there. At Oponu and Te Arai the water was higher than has b.rn noticed for thirty voars. Amoii'.' contributions telegraphed to a relief fund are t-u iiuiiieas from 1.. I>. Nathan and Co., and live guineas tor tin- children of Capt. Nicholas, drowned from tin- schooner Aotoa. HASTINGS, duly Is. Over live inches of rain has fallen since '.Saturday, and at noon to-day it \yas still rainin-_' heavily. July !'.». Relief nieasur. s are boinsf taken and X-250 has b subscribed in the town. The sheep farmers in the hill country are providim; jjrass for farmers sink.