THE FLOODS IN THE NORTH.
Auckland, This day
The total damage by the floods in the Coroinandcl district is now stated at £12,000.
The mailman due at Tokatca from Kennedy's Bay is missing. AVellinoton, This day.
Tho Coromandel correspondent of the Evening Post wires as follows : —Reports coming in from tho out-districts tell of lamentable destruction of roads and bridges. In somo parts there arc groat chasms a hundred feet deep across the roads, as if caused by an earthquake. At AVhangapoua 2000 logs came down ono creek, and carried away a bush-houso with twenty men in it. The occupants hacl a narrow escape. At Kennedy Bay hundreds of logs wero carried out to sea. The total damage to roads and bridges in Coromandel is estimated at £12,000 at the least.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3740, 11 July 1883, Page 3
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131THE FLOODS IN THE NORTH. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3740, 11 July 1883, Page 3
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