The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1872. GREAT FLOOD AT GREYMOUTH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 36, 10 February 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1872. GREAT FLOOD AT GREYMOUTH.

We' are indebted to the Colonist for the following telegram. Greyjiouth, February 10. There is a fearful flood at Greymouth. It is the greatest calamity that ever befel the place. Tbe protective works gave way. The water burst in at the top of the town, spreading destruction everywhere. Houses, hedges, one-third of the Quay road, stores, and hotels carried away to sea. Over 50 buildings are completely gone. Some buildings rolled over each other, and others are a mass of ruins. Hundreds of men, women, and children are rendered homeless. They were taken off the tops of the houses by boats. The water is now subsiding. Only one person, a boy named William Hall, is known to be drowned. Mr. Lic4htband's letter to the Colonist has been published in the Wellington Independent, at the request of the writer. Telegraph to Motueka. — Tenders are invited for the supply and delivery of 640 telegraph poles for the line between Nelson and Motueka. College Governors. — His Honor Arthur Penrose Seymour has been gazetted a governor of the Nelson College in the place of the late Mr. Sinclair. Excelsior Minstrels. — Messrs Collins and Carroll have as great reason to be satisfied with the " benefit " accorded to them last night as have the audience with the entertainment provided for them, which went off most successfully. There will be another performance this evening with a change of programme. Christ Church Organ. — A musical service, for which a numerous choir have been practising for some time past, will be held at Christ Church on Tuesday evening next, on the occasion of opening the new organ. This being the first instrument of the kind imported into the Nelson province will no doubt prove a great attraction. We have been requested to call attention to the notice issued by the churchwardens to sealholders. Two Thousand Sheep have been destroyed by a grass fire on Mr. G. Leerun at Canterbury. The Charlotte Gladstone from London arrived at Lyttelton last Saturday after a fine passage of 89 daj's. She landed 800 birds for tho Acclimatisation Society. From the local papers we learn that the scarcity of small silver coin is so great in Christchurch as to have given rise to a bet that £50 worth of sixpences could not be collected in that city within one week. Flood in the Buller. — A. telegram received from Westport last night says that there has been a heavy flood in the Buller that swept away Munro's (late Beauchamp's) store and warehouse, and two houses at the end of Gladstone-street. Throughout the Dunstan goldfield, remarks the local journal, Chinamen carefully gather every scrap of iron and sell it to their countryemen in Dunedin, by whom it is carefully packed and forwarded lo China, where it commands a ready sale. Drainage Works at Canterbury.— According to estimates laid upon the table of the Christchurch- City Council, it would appear that £7656 is to be expended upon drainage works during the current year, and possibly £3000 more, whilst the anticipated expenditure on ordinary city works is over £4000. Eleven Men Poisoned. — Eleven men bave had a very narrow escape at Upcot Station, Awatere. By some accident, a quantity of arsenic became mixed with the flour, and all hands having eaten it there was no one able to go for assistance. Ten of the men have now recovered, but one of them is still ill. At a recent meeting of workmen lately employed on the Auckland aud Waikato railway, but now out on strike, one speaker, glancing not very obliquely at Mr. Brogden, asked — " When God sent Adam to work in the Garden of Eden, did he send him a Nigger driver ? " The question afforded no little amusement. A Sad Occurrence is' reported in the Canterbury papers. A few days ago a daughter of Mr. George Bedford, farmer, Courtenay, aged four years, came to her death in a very sad way. From what is to hand, it would appear that Mr. Bedford was harvesting, and two or three of his children took him some tobacco. Whilst he was at work they came across a bottle of whiskey in one of the sheaves, and they commenced to drink it — the deceased at the same time eating some of the tobacco. When tbe matter was noted every effort was made to relieve the unfortunate child, but without avail, .and she died the same day.