WEST MAITLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 66, 25 March 1870, Page 2

WEST MAITLAND.

I 17th Incessant rain all night and this morning. At 8.30 this morning river twenty feet four inches above high water rnork and still rising. Flood-gates standing well 10.53 a.m. The rain is decending steadily. The river is nearly bank high, and it is feared a heavy flood is impanding The flood-gates at Wallis Creek at present stand the force of the water ■ bravely. The river up here has risen 22 feet 4 i inches. | Dr. Liddell's groom fell from a balcony and was killed. The body of a man was found drowned in the creek. The flood gates across Wallis Creek are entirely washed away. The Victoria bridge is also much injured, and likely to be destroyed.

At Muswellbrook river bank high. At Murrurundi district all round flooded. At Tamworth river rising. _ g At Gunnedah river bank high; raining. At Armidale country flooded. March 12. At 9 a.m. the river was 27 feet 11 inches above the ordinary level, and up to the East Maitland bar, oozing through the embankment. It is level with the embankment at Horseshoe Bend, and is rising fast in Louth Park and other places. 4 p. m. The embankment at the Horseshoe Bend has been swept away, and the river is rushing in furionssy ; several houses are submerged, but no lives have been lost. The river is still slowly rising. The destruction of property is terrible. The weather is now fine, but all business is suspended. „ . . March 13. It has been raining since daybreak. The river is up 28 feet 2 inches, and it is still rising slowly The remains of the floodgates prevent vast quantities of water from flowing up the creek, hence there is a slow rise of lock water. The water is two feet deep on the East Maitland road, and everything looks very serious.