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Dunstan Times, Issue 234, 19 October 1866, Page 2

-| .THK Fl. on. ' On Thursday night last, we were v'sited 1 J by one of the most severe floods that has • ever been known to visit this district From shortly after midnight on Wednesday till 4 p.m. on Thursday, it rained in- • cessantly; about 'the latter hour the Mnnu- ! J he'rikia and Molyneux ftivers rose rapidly. "The effects of the flood were however most |, felt in the neighbourhood of the former M river, which reached a height of at least - 1 thirty feet above its ordinary level. At • Black's the damage done was something ''•mormons, without one exception, the cul-;-itivtu...3 •"•"'and on the flat were totally 1 1 ruined, -everything they possessed Pj swept away and destroyed. From thei -crossing place at Low's Station down oflf ! > the Township of Alexandra, on the' Vnly-B ll :neux, there was everywhere desoUt.icm.B M Mr Clucas'farm was clean swept away, ■ ; Mso were al o the cultivation paddocks ofl '-JMr '. Kobinson of the Balmoral Hotel ;| Strain's Bridge and (Jlass' flaming were 1 5 - car-ied away; Leslie's punt broke' adrift, j <"- but was recovered, and on aturday morn- j ; >jing commenced plying across the river. 1 >,[ At Black's and Back's the traffic across the I j river was suspended f r two days. The 1 L - lie d appears to have been almost entirely '- local, its effects being not felt beyond the » l 'uust n District. ir Tlie damage done t-> Mr Reek's Hotel, at Blackstoue Hill Statio •, was ruinous ; hj a nine-acre paddock, sown with oats, and 3 - potatoes, was completely destroyed. The j e water rushed into the ''otelsosuddenlythat ir nothing scarcely could be removedj and 2S the only mode by which the property Js could be prevented from being carried 4 away, was by locking vip all the doors. lr The water filled the house and covered the "1 beds and furnitiue and other contents with < >; ' a thick coating of mud, the damage done v , was of a most serious extent Fowls and r« other animals were destroyed, the total "f loss being estimated at not less than £370. Mr Beck is now removing to a m >ro safe at position on the other side of the river. a Mr (Jogle, of the Lauder station, in a most generous manner, pointed out a piece of .V> land, about one hundred acres, and told ec Mr Beck to make the best of it. lrt Mr Tog e's home-station has suffered imrs mense damage, all the cultivated ground nc around it has been destroyed. Mr Ukin's re cultivated ground, at Lauder Creek, was o° completely swept away, including his liveto stock; the contents of the house is also )W much damaged. Jy All the claims on Black's flat are at a on stand-still, and no work can be done in )e -|them until the tail-races are opened up >s- [anew. At present the draining channels 19 | are nearly fi led-up with mud, and much •«d : labour will be necessary before the miners Is, j can perform any work in their claims, in l he fall of the lluming belonging to the »ft ' Go'den Gate' Company, is the most j'd dreasterons event in connection with the ke flood at Black's, the party will have to re»y- main idle for a lenghty period of time. •en DUXSTAN JOOKi'A" CLUH. in Tho Co i m tt o i.f the ah.no held a ra-rt->st i!g „n W diftslav rrejiii'L' la e t gj| >nt Sin sham's >jdi:v T 1 rre v i pres.nt—Me -r< J. G G. G'ass o»1 iat sidni t,) J. C. T m-nßon. it. M'.Mo n \V ip, Gr ndb y, .1. IL z l ■ t. B P H»\\,\, W.J. in- Buy, a d W. Smi ham. 11 r J C. Thom;ot 8)n i) c-tpied ihe cha*--. tis The ■■■•'n itos of il o last meting vero we read and o"'fi-"vd. Pr-'pjfeJ by Mr Barley and spcrnd' l by ie,' Mr Smi ham and criid —" Tin t. e V oth«' to ian s a dard of weights fo acbea'o t- '•< a: in li u , tic '■ iq; «' n r U.rr d ietl Atacuvnt J M<- lib u M..ora -.a; ine o-deie I for paymoa'. J The ro.iuit of to C irnni tee sppoict i

ti see to the alterations of the race-course -"wasread and adopted. - - Messrs Bijlny,. Sjajthiim apd. : Gry/ll".' wpio appr^mcl a Biib.-ommitt'e to c«ir> Jo_H t|ie pro)jos(4 nl'rrq,iiia4t7 ; ormfae. t It was"agrwu 'tnat one hundred subBcipt'on Ifs's, .to rriniei-; also, that a hepTood'ra; J Proposed by Mr. Hnz'pU srco; ded byllr Barry*! That adv'rti.'einpiii,b» "it4rte ! d m thfl Duns'an Times—naming the difyH of the line- MHpijng.andtKat a sub cimmitt'p con«if>tina»VSrjßiV*i Gl i-sford Thomson and Smithim b > "uppo'ired to dr;iw up a Pro-•'jT'-nmrnn to be submitted t> a meeting, to b • hj Id at Kyau'B BthidgVllutel on t?ie 31st iustanr. .... Nine new members wen nominated and "receiv.d as menihoYs of ihe Club. A ef ib inks to the Chairman conclud..•ed the proceedings; il - :-.;:. V.i \ ■ —*— .