HAWKE'S BAY FLOODS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10423, 22 April 1897, Page 5

HAWKE'S BAY FLOODS.

RELIEF FUND.

[by TELEGRAPH.— press association.

Napier, Wednesday. Looal subscriptions to the Flood Relief Fund are coming in freely, with many donations of clothing, bedding, and other necessaries. Judge Ward sends £21 from Hokitika.

In the Magistrate's Court to-day, Mr. Turnbull, 8.M., referred feelingly to the loss of Sergeant O'Donovan and Constable Stephenson, whom lie eulogised as most painstaking capable officers, Constable Bsskiyjlle has returned from an inspection of the coast line, but found no trace of the missing men. It is rather remarkable that two floodedout settlers have since lost their houses by fire. Mr. Hall-Jones held a consultation with the chairman of the County Council, the Mayor of Napier, and leading citizens and engineers. The principal question discussed was as to whether the washout at Waitangi aheuld be bridged, or an embankment formed, and the general opinion was in favour of a bridge. In the meantime, Mr. Hall-Jones promised to restore communication as quickly as possible, probably by means of a temporary diversion of tho line. He and Mr. Houston, M.H.R., afterwards left to visit the flooded district. He has already taken steps to have a punt placed on the Upper Mohaka, on the Taupo line, pending the re-construction of the bridge. In ordor to find some particulars of the connections of tho commercial traveller named Rose, who was drowned while in one of the rescue boats, a search was made amongst his effects. His address was found to be, " John Rose, J. Smith and Co., 305, George-staeet, Sydney." It was gathered that he had a wife and two children. His wife has been communicated with. Wellinuton, Wednesday. A subscription list in aid of the Napier sufferers has been opened. Mr. M. Kennedy has given £50, John Plummet £25, William Beetliam, of Masterton, £100. A public meeting is to be held on Friday. The Press Association is advised that the Cable Company will frank cable messages through to the other colonies asking assistance for tho Hawko's Bay sufferers. Westpokt, Wednesday, At a public meeting to night, the Mayor presiding, it was resolved to canvass the town and district for funds in aid of the sufferers by the Hawke's Bay floods. An entertainment will also be given for the aarao object. An influential committee was appointed and a considerable sum subscribed in the room. Ciikistohuroh, Wednesday. A representative meeting of citizens, presided over by the Mayor, to-day formed a committee to raise funds for the Hawke's Bay sufferers. A subscription list was opened. The general committee of the Diamond Jubilee celebration meets on Friday night to consider a proposal to use its organisation for raising funds for the same object. This committeo is sure to take some action in that direction. Dunisdin, Wednesday. The Mayor has called a lnoeting for Friday to organise relief for the sufferers by the Hawke's Bay flood. The Ounedin Burns Club to-night voted five guineas to tho fund. [di telegraph.—own COBBESPONDENT.] Paekoa, Wednesday. Great sympathy is felt in Ohinemuri for the sufferers by the Hawke's Bay flood, and one practical stop has beon taken at the Talisman Gold Mining Company's mine with a vlow to helping those who have suffered so severely by opening a subscription list. Probably other mines will follow suit, and in this way a substantial sum may be raised.

GREAT DAMAGE AT MARTON. A privato tologram received yesterday from Mar ton stated that the Hoods over the whole of that district had been very serious and that every bridge over the Rangitikoi had been washed away.

AN aucklandek missing. A privato telegram states Mr. Henry Bricrly, wheelwright, a mairiod man, who had been in Napier for sovon or eight years, is supposed to have been drowned in the llmv Ice's Bay floods, Ho was an excellent) swimmer, and prominent in athletic sports. Ho is well known in Auckland, having served his time with Mr. James Mackie, coachbuilder, in Auckland.

The Town Clerk has received the following telegram from the Mayor of_Napior: — "I have to thank yon moat sincerely for your kind oxpression and sympathy, and for the efforts you are making on our behalf." At the monthly church meeting held in the Boresford-streefc Congregational Church lust, evening a unanimous resolution was passed to the effect that a collection would be made on the evening of Sunday, the first of May, in aid of the sufferers by tho reconfc calamity in Hawke's Bay. Tho following subscriptions are acknowledged by the Town Clerk at the Municipal ntfices:—P.H., ss; Mrs. Jane Parkinson, .£| ; L. 11. Neumegen, £1 Is ;T. VV.Doonin, Jil 'la; Robert Farrell, 10* 6d ; H.N. \bbot.r, £2 2a; Mrs. J. M. Dargaville, £1 Is; ICR , 4s; A. Judd, £1 ; Mary Philips, ss; total, £14 10s.