Heavy Floods at the Thames
+ (PXB UNITED PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) Thames, This Day. There has been constant rain here for the last 36 hours, which has had the effect of overflowing all the creeks, particularly Karaka, which has overflowed its banks, and flooded all the town in its vicinity. The damage ddne so far is not so great as on the last, occasion of a similar flood, but if the rain continues much longer it will be a serions matter. The Uooms of the Shortland Sawmill Com* pany have broken away, and tbe logs are drift'ng down £air<-nga to the sea. The logs on their passage bave store in the steamer Putuki, which was lying in the stream. She now lies partly submerged*
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 4, 19 June 1884, Page 2
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