LATER PARTICULARS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 35, 4 September 1884, Page 2

LATER PARTICULARS.

At Awahuri considerable damage has been done, several residents having beon driven from their houses on the low lands to tale refuge with friends whose habitations are situated on higher ground. The natives also are at present camped on the hills, and are suffering severely from the bad weather. Still further damage lias been sustained by the Manchester street bridge, its foundations at one end being entirely undermined, and a large portion of the south embankment washed away. Traffic over the bridge has been stopped, except for foot passengers, who cross at their own risk. Thas the only available thoroughfare for horse' or .vehicle traffic to that part of the town north of the Makino is by Denbigh or West street. The railway bridge over the Makino, and the south embankment thereof, have also been damaged' to such an extent as to render it impassable' for the ordinary traffic, and the trains can only travel as far as either end of the bridge. There was no train for Wanganut this morning, and the usual 11.45 a.m. train from Wanganui did not reach here to-day till nearly 1.30 p.m. News has reached us of damage to the line at various places north and south. At Okoia the line was submerged for a considerable distance, and the embankments were washed away causing much interference with the traffic. The train from Foxton yesterday morning had a very narrow escape while crossing a culvert about five miles north of Foxton. The culvert sank in with the brake van, which was at the rear of the train, the van fairly leaping on to the line again ; and. of .course the ordinary traffic at this point is interrupted. At Teakitehuna a sea of water covered the country for miles, and the passengers yesterday had to be transferred from train to train in

boats.