Another Flood in Hawke's Bay.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 343, 19 June 1894, Page 2

Another Flood in Hawke's Bay.

* SERIOUS LOSS OF CROPS. (FKB PRESi ASSOCIATION.) JVapikb, June 18 It has been raining heavily since Saturday uigbt, and there is no sign of it abating. The river is in high flood. A heavy sea is running in the Bay. Reports from the Clive state that the township is considerably under water. The mouth of the Ngiiruroro river is very bad and further trouMe is feared unless the weather abates. It is still xaining heavily. 'I he Moanee and Papakura settlers again suffer owing to flood waters on their land Che usual weekly Taupo and Kuripapanga coaches could not get through the rivers being impassable. All round the district shepherds are mustering the sheop and taking them to the high ground. At Huntings even the December flood was uot so high Later. Heavy rain has fallen almost with* out a lull since Saturday evening, and heavy floods aro reported from all the low lying parts. At Clive the residents have all left their houses, and are living in the hotels, boats having been taken up in the afternoon. Meanee was much deeper under water than at the December floods un til aa embankment burst. No loss of life is reported, and as the water rose steadily most stick was removed to higher grounds, but many small settiers will be ruined as they had just got fresh crops into the ground after their losses in December and all has beeu swept away. At Wairoa the river is the highest ever known, and heavy losses of stock are reported.