HAWKE'S BAY FLOODS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10425, 24 April 1897, Page 5

HAWKE'S BAY FLOODS.

gOMB ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. the RELIEF fund. rjr TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION, J Napier, Friday. • glg from ulietau show that residents ?jL e offered severely by the flood. Mr. f Harry Gardiner lost his house, containing -four rooms, and all his furniture. Mr. ■ fade's house was washed off the blocks, v, , f flUt feet of silt remains inside. The f was right up to the roof. Mr. Hayes kid threo feet of water indoors, and all his ■ furniture was swept out. The house of Mr. Morris, of Woodthorpe, was completely recked, and most of the furniture is gone. I The family bad to cross the hills to get to OD»wa, as there was no lace of refuge between those two localities, the family JJing accommodated at the Opawa home""ibe roads at Puketapu are all blocked, miking vehicular traffio impossible for a JL, There was never so much water at ('place within the memory of the oldest Lttler. The Tutaekuri River broke its blots at Pakowhai and again at Mr. Heilop's, sen., where on hundreds of acres tfisre » re ' from two to five feet of silt. Mr. t Hallett'a woolslied is considerably damaged. Fourteen bales of wool disapwared. The paddock of Mr. Heslop is J^d with totara logs. Mr. Laugley Shaw got through from inland Pa tea after a journey which occupied three days. He reports that the roads in that district; are completely washed away. Birch Bros, are heavy losers. Wool stored In a whare 15ft above the ordinary flood level W»S carried away. Trains now run from Te Aute southward, and passengers can get through to Wellington in one day. The engineer to the Hawke's Bay Connty Council estimates the damage to roads and bridges at £25,000. The Wairoa Council suffers severely conlidering the comparative poverty of that county. The Ratangata Council will also lie put to considerable expense, but in ffaipawa County the damage is but slight. lione of the bodies of those drowned have yet been recovered, except that of Cunning{am, a shepherd at Chesterhope. New Plymouth, Friday. At a public meeting to-night a Hawke's Bay relief fund was started; £45 was subicribed in the room. Wellington, Friday. At a public meeting called by the Mayor to raise a fund for the relief of the Uawke'a Bay sufferers, about £150 was collected in the room.

Chiustohdroh, Friday. At a meeting of the Record Reign General Committee to-night, it was resolved that all funds received until May 24 should be devoted to the Hawke's Bay Relief Fund, and all collected alter that date to the Jubilee Home.

Oamaro, Friday. A meeting was held in connection with the Hawke's Bay relief fund. Mr. J. Rcid, of Elderslie, gives £10 10s and Messrs. J. md T. Meek, a ton of flour in Napier. Donedin, Friday. At a meeting called in connection with the Hawke's Bay floods, a resolution ot sympathy with the sufferers was passed, and a committee appointed to raise subscriptions. Letters were received, containing cheques for £75, including one for £25 from the Otago Daily Times.

Mr. P. A. Philips, Town Clerk, has just received from the Auckland Racing Club, • cheque for £100, for contribution towards the Napier Relief Fund. The Town Clerk notifies that a public meeting of citizens will be held on Wednesday afternoon next at the Council Chambers for the purpose of appointing a com mittee to collect subscriptions in aid of the offerers by the Hawke's Bay floods. It will boseenon reference to an advertisement elsewherothat Mr. P. R, Dixhastaken the initiative in arranging for a concert to be given in aid of the mfferers by the floods at Hawke's Bay. Members of the musical profession and others are invited to co-operate In this laudable object, and there will no doubt be a hearty response. It is intended that the programme will be a most varied one.

On Monday evening the circus will give a performance on behalf of the sufferers by the Hawke's Bay flood. The Union S.S. Co. have kindly consented to carry all food supplies for the relief of the eufferors by the floods free to

Napier. We beg to acknowledge subscriptions in aid ot the sufferers by the Hawko's Bay flood, as under:— Mrs. J.C., 10s; A.N.C., s*; Mrs. Skeates, £1; Mr. Wm. Skeates, £1; Skeates Brothers. 10s ; Mrs. (i. P. Pierce, £1 Is; S. W. Hill, £1 Is; Wilsons and Horton, £5 ss; A. W. Keal, 10s; Dr. »nd Mrs. King, £1 lis 6d -, A.C.S., 10s; A. Buckland and Sons, £25; Mrs. M. M. Kirkbride, 10s; "Phaeton," £1; total, £28 lis 6d.