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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 99, 4 May 1870, Page 2

GOULBURN, April 26, 9 a.m. Highest flood for twenty years, excepting that of 1864. Still rising. MUSWELLBROOK, 3 p.m. Water at Dcuman five feet higher than 1867 flood. Seven lives lost. Great many slab houses washed away. Some bodies recovered. Many cattle lost. MORPETH, 9 a.m. River now within five inches of 1867 flood, and rising slowly. NEWCASTLE, 12.33 p.m. Traffic stopped beyond Hexham. Water not commenced to recede yet at Maitland. Rising fast in the Hexham swamps. Mails will, if possible, be got through by trolly boat &o. WEST MAITLAND, 8.41 a.m. Police Office quite destroyed. Water now receding. 8 a.m. River nearly 34 feet above low water. Has fallen about 4 inches since 1 a.m. Rapid current. Backwater over platform of Elginstreet rising fast. High-s^'-et embankment standing well, also piling at >J_r of Wolfe and Gorrick's, which is nearly four feet above the river. South east end of Court-house fallen out. Earthwork road between Alma and Northumberland Hotels, where Short Bridge stood, swept away last night, about 11, easing the Northumberland, which is now dry. The greatest height, 34 feet 3 inches, or 13 inches above the 1867 level. 1 33 p.m. Flood fallen five inches. Still one foot above 1867. High-street embankment standing well, all others gone.