The Fielding Star. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 1893. THE FLOODS IN HAWKF'S BAY.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 134, 6 December 1893, Page 2

The Fielding Star. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, DEC . 6, 1893. THE FLOODS IN HAWKF'S BAY.

The terrible floods in Hawke's Bay, which have visited that part of the colony within the last few days, have done an immense amount of damage. Human life has beeu snerificei, and numerous flocks and herds of sheep and cattle utterly destroyed. This overwhelming disaster coming at the present tirao is the more particularly sad, becauso the farmers had every reason to hope that their increase of young stock would be so great as to more than compensate them for the losses of past years, and so place them in positions of comparative independence. But they "Were doomed to be disappointed, and we sincerely sympathise with them. It is more than possible that some of them may be so far ruined as to make it necessary for their fellow colonists to come to their assistance, and we have the satisfaction of knowing* by P aß t experience, that if an appeal for help be made it will be freely responded to by all sections of the community in every town and village throughout the length and breadth of the land. Colonists may differ on many points, and we hope, for obvious reasons, they will continue to do so, but on the one point of lending a helping hand to suffering humanity, no matter in what part of the world, there is a unanimity which is creditable to them as individuals, and honorable to them as a body.