WAIROA NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1471, 3 June 1905, Page 4

WAIROA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent

It has been raining without intermission for eight days, and at time of writing no sign of abatement. Tho rivers are all in high flood, and most of the low-lying flats are under wator. The Waikaremoana coach had to out its way through

a seties of slipH on its downward journey.

and was unable to cross the river at Frasertown owing to the punt being off. Overlnnd communication with Napier is cut off owing to the flooded state of the rivers- Fortunately the immense body of water in the river has scoured out a splendid entrance, and the Tangaroa has irmde two trips this week and will probably make a third, so that this compensates us for tho interruption in our overland communication.

A party of ladies and gentlemen who left by last Thursday’s coach for Napier, after an unpleasant experience in the now road deviation at Waihua, where tho coach was bogged for some time, managed to reach Tongoio where their furthor progress was barred by tho lagoon, which had broken out, and they were obliged to take refuge in tho Maori settlement, whore they were detained in a very unenviable plight, eing hemmed in on all sides by flooded b roams.

8 o’clock on Tuesday moraine; smoke was issuing from the launch Te'Atu, which was lying at the Clyde town wharf, loaded with goods for Mohaka, with which place she had been awaiting an opportunity to communicate for some weeks. On lifting the hatches it was found that some lime, which formed port of the cargo, had caused the fire, and it was some time before tbo fire wdb got under. A considerable portion of tbo cargo consisted of flour and sugar, which 1103 been more or less, damaged by water and smoke. A flood in the Mohaka river has enabled Messrs MoKain and Hutchison to float three rafts of logs down to their sawmill at lower Mohaka.

'At the general meeting o£ the Wairoa A. and P. Society, on Saturday, 20th inst., Mr A. Steed was elected secretary in place of Mr J. Dove, who has resigned, and Mr A. E. Beckett, treasurer.