The Flood.

Manawatu Herald, 20 April 1895, Page 3

The Flood.

We are glad to report that the flood is receeding fast. On Thursday afternoon Messrs Garter, Burr, and Edwards paid the town a visit looking none the worse for the damp time they had been having. Messrs Adin, Figgott ana King also were about. Mr Piggott went to bed one night at his house on the river bank and woke up early in the morning by the waters desired to share Tthe accommodation. By the time he got away the water was almost up tjtflijinieck. Mn&din and family were canoed acrosFthe river to an old house near the ffoxmill. Mr Burr though well supplied with canoes, being in one and having another alongside, got jammed into a corner by the set of the eddies of the flood and was unable to get away, he therefore calmly waited for better times which occurred when Messrs Gillespie and Gray who had gone on Wednesday on an expedition to find Keith, took him in and landed him at Moutoa. The story of the losses will soon have to be written, but the flood must go down more yet to make all things clear.. From Mr Edwards we learnt with pleasure that his loss of stock amounted to only nine sheep. His crop of potatoes will however be spoilt. All the grass he has yet seen id covered with the material of the embankments and silt. Mr Smith has only lost one cow and reports having plenty of feed. The Messrs Symons have lost their orop of potatoes and a fine paddock of mangolds. We are glad to report that no flood water entered upon Mr G. Satherley's land. Mr G. Hughes had; very little indeed, just the overflow of the drain. The road by Moutoa is nearly dry to the Shannon ferry, but from there to Shannon the waters are still out. It is reported that Mr Wallace has lost 700 sheep. The waters are not very quickly subsiding. Mr Gardner and family are away, but we are informed that the water ente&djus house some time before it went into Mr F. Taylor's house on the opposite Bide of the river, and when Mr Taylor's family left it wasjjiearly four feet deep. The win-dowi-of Mr Gardner's house were nearly tut of Bight. All being away the loss of stock cannot be ascertained. Yesterday Mr Foster, the manager of the B.N.Z. Assets Company, came up by rail as far as Wirokino ferry and' had a look at the Company's Moutoa estate. Mr Hillary and his man George had a pleasant experience. On Wedjftfigday morning the flood rose so quickly that they were just able to get a breakfast when they had to pm^ seize their blankets^and make for the punt;- upon which they remained for two days. Up the Oroua Valley the flood has not been so bad. One settler lost a

paddock of turnips from being spoilt by the water, and Mr Greenaway is reported to have had 300 acres of newly sown bush covered. To-day Mr Keith drove his coach in, and reports the flood still over the road on the Shannon side of the river. _____ ____ _____