THE WEATHER.—FURTHER DAMAGE AND LOSS OF LIFE BY FLOODS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3851, 20 November 1883, Page 3

THE WEATHER.—FURTHER DAMAGE AND LOSS OF LIFE BY FLOODS.

Auckland, This day. The recent excessive rains have caused a heavy landslip of forty tons of earth on the Waikato railway, near Wangarata. TniAKU, This day. The damage done by the floods of Saturday has been more severe than was at first anticipated. The approaches to several main road bridges are entirely carried away, and traffic is stojiped. DuNKniN, This day. The floods on the Taicri plains are not severe, but some damage has been done on the low lyinir portion of the plain, and portions of some district roads have been washed away. News from Paliucivton states that Mr Foster, another of the passengers in tho bujrgy'from which Mr Hobbs lust his life, died""this afternoon. He loaves a wife and two children At Palmersion the conduct of tliu two young men Sloan, who went to the rescue'of the party of Saturday night, is spoken of in the highest terms. " One of them dived after Mr Foster and brought, him out by the hair of his head. They had a small boat, and it cap.-ized, and both had to swim ashore. At the inquest on the body of Mr Hobbs the Coroner specially thanked the Sloans on behalf of the jury. The suburban borough of Maori Hill will probably haveancxpenditureof.£ 100 en tailed on it by the floods, and North-east Valley of £:io6. The particulars to hand about the drowning of Mr Charles Eddie, manager for Mr Tims. Calcutt, who is the valuer of lands taken for public works purposes by the Government, show that lie was proceeding in a single buggy to meet a train at Goodwood station, lie was warned of the danger, but made light of it. He crossed the Pleasant river bridge safely, but the buggy was completely washed away at a dip in the road, over which the river was running. Some men on a hill near by saw the' accident, but could do nothing. Neither the buggy or the occupant was seen again. Mr Eddie s body was found on Sunday morning a quarter of a mile away, and the horse a short distance from the body. The buggy has not been recovered. The rainfall at Palmcrstou in twelve hours was 2.')1 inches.