GREYMOUTH.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 86, 19 April 1870, Page 2

GREYMOUTH.

it is stated that low fevers among adults, and dysentery among children, are vory prevalent in Greymouth. The City of Adelaide arrived on the -3rd instant,.and the racehorses have been safely auded. j Barbarian is : a shade better, and Detective is also advancing. Tim Whiffler is backed for the Cup at 7 to 1. We learn from our Charleston contemporary that the rainfall of the 9th inflicted serious damage in that district. The Maori Chief Company, who had recently completed a magnificent plant on the Back Lead, alone suffered damage estimated at £400. The dams belonging to Mitchell and party, Parsons, Saanlau, Harle, Anderson,; and the Queen's Own Company, broke away, inflicting very serious damage to the' owners of mining plants ou the lower ground, and parties working tailings in the creeks.' Nearly all the races in the district have met with some mishap. The largo race belonging to the Nile Company has broken away, as also the race of the Cosmopolitan Company. Both claims are idle inconsequence, besides the Excelsior and Enterprise Companies, who were supplied by the races mentioned. A number of gentlemen who, it is stated1, gauged the rainfall with tolerable accuracy, give as the result seven to nine inches during an interval of four hours. The Grey River Argus says :—A falling barometer on Saturday betokened that a change of the weather was about to take place. During the afternoon the appearance of the weather showed that rain was inevitable, and before night it came down in torrents. As the night advanced, in addition to the rain, the wind gradually increased from fitful gusts until it culminated in a heavy gale, the downpour of rain being incessant during the Avhole pf the night. As a natural consequence, the following morning showed the river to be in a high state of flood, and as the flood tide made the water which poured into the river from the various culverts and drains was backed up, and the streets near the wharf became flooded and impassable. Among the streets which wore in thi3 state yesterday morning was, as usual, Tancred-street, the water reaching in many instances full twelve inches above the flooring. Hamilton and Weld-streets were also flooded, and during the greater part of the day impassable for pedestrians. On the Railway Reserve, in the neighbourhood of Hanipden-street, the residents were in a state of blockade during the whole of the early part of the day. The only means they had of leaving their hpuses being paddling across to the traniwaj/ on rafts. Such was the pressure of water pouring through the culvert running paraljel with the Government House, that the to^avermg of it was in some places raised fullyTnine niches.