EAST COAST NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1507, 15 July 1905, Page 2

EAST COAST NEWS.

WHANGARA. (Times’ Corresp onucut.) I The nice mild weather lately exI pericnccd hero for the last ten. days I or so suddenly broke up at the beI (ginning oli -the week, when a Very j heavy rain set in, which has conI tinuc'd with little Variation Heavy, - south-east squalls, with ic.itgli eea I and cold win’d. As was to kc expected. the rivers were soon. in I flood, but the only accident reported up to now, is the breaking away of I 'the Fakarao punt. Jt seems -, that/-’ the southern support of the wire l , rone collapsed, thereby lowering the 1 ’ punt more Into the water, where ifcfiai caught fhc lull force of the flood. - •

j .which parted the ronesi attached to. I the running gear, and sent it adrift. Mnvcver,' Mr J. R. Shaw with willI int; assistance, managed to get a I rope made fast to the punt as it I made down tho river, swinging ft round and stranding it on the-beach, I only a little more than- a chain fro.tr her ordinary position. Every effort is being made by Mr Shaw, with hia usual promptitude, to have things [righted, and the travelling p'iblic. i rnay depend on being as little ~ iy-. convenier.ced as possibleTho Paikia Football Club’ sent a team to Tokomaru on Saturday last to meet a team from the Awanui CluL-., when they sustained a vecy severe defeat, the scores- being— Awanui/ 28 poihts, Whangara-- eight. , The P f aikia should have playstl Toko- m maru lon Saturday, the Sfeli, but ovu- ./ ing to time intclj, the game did naO| come offf . > v j - *