Deluge at Hawke's Bay

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1333, 23 May 1905, Page 2

Deluge at Hawke's Bay

Rivers in High Flood

By Telegraph.—Press Atso»iation. Naheu, this day. Thkrb lias boon 11 coii'.hious downpour of ruin sbcn Monday night, mid thore is every indication of a floo 1 if it docs noj soon cease. Reports from several of iho county districts at 8 o'clock Inst evoninr, show tnnt tlio rivcH wore rising fn«t, In the town five inches of rain hud fallen between Wednesday and nine o'clock yesterday morning, aortitis rsiiiu'itcd that by 9 a.m. to-dtiy anoihor two inches will bo addoi), Thß rainfull for tho firs', four months of tho year wns only six inches, so that this total fall has bain exceeded during the last five days. In the Wharoomarunui Reserve tho river is running about two feet above tho level of tho road adjoining but not quito so high as it hm been on proviotiß occasions. Later.

Thero is ovory prospect of the weathor clearins, and the danger of a s.irious flood is past. The riyor bank at Moanoo has burst, and the country in tho vicinity is flooded to a depdi of tlvcoo feet. Tho rail, way line between Napier and Hasting is undor water for a considerable distance, ami lha train service is consequently dinorgauiscJ.

A heavy land slip occurred in CarlisleB'rei't, partially wrecking the house of Mis Kcudell.