Floods at Coromandel.
DISASTROUS DESTRUCTION.
£12,000.
A MAILMATSf MISSING.
(BY TELEGRAPH.) (PEB UNITED PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) !• Wemjngton, July 10. The Ooromandel correspondent of the Evening Post wires as follows :—fteports cpining m from ouodistricts tell of a lamentable destruction of roads and bridges. -In some parts there are great chasms, a hundred feet deep, across the road, as if caused by an earthquake. A man at Cabbage Bay was jammed be» tween logs, and four of his ribs were broken. He is m a precarious state. At Whan^apoua 2000 logs came down Vone creek, and carried away a bush Hiouse with twenty men m it. The occupants had a narrow .escape. At Kennedy Bay hundreds of legs were carried put, to sea. The total damage to roads and -bridges m Coromandel is estimated to be at least £12,000. The mailman is missing frcm Kennedy Bay. fle was due on Saturday, and has not arrived yet.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 184, 11 July 1883, Page 3
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