THE FLOODS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 411, 10 February 1877, Page 3

THE FLOODS.

Heavy weather threatened all last week, but did not commence iu u-.aiest till Saturday night. It rained continuously through Monday and Tuesday, held up on Wednesday, but began again, the wind having gone more to tho south, on Thursday morning. Tho non-arrival at Naseby on Tuesday morning of the Duncdin coach showed that serious interruptions to traffic, and probable damage had begun. On Monday night, and through Tuesday the Main Gully, Wet Gully, and Enterprise began to gather storm water in great quantities, breaking into the Government Channel, and entiroly obliterating all tad races in the gullies themselves. A number of head races have also been damaged. So serious a destruction of mining property, in proportion to the numbers working, has not occurred for many years The Head Race has also suffered, there being no great damage anywhere on its course, but a succession of slips and breaks, in the aggregate a serious matter, meaning, with the present working staff, about a month's extra work. At Hill's Creek on Tuesday morning the snow was lying to the depth of several inches, destroying all standing crops. Fortunately the bulk of the crop was cut on Tumbull's farm, and will escape injury from that cause; but the continuous wet will make it exceedingly difficult to save the crops. Tho mail coach, which should, have arrived at ISTasehy on Tuesday morning, did not turn up till Thursday, at 10 a.m. The mid-weekly mail, yia Macraes and Hydo, did not come at all, the Taieri being impassable. Both Devino and JN'ettlefold reached Pigroot on Monday last, and Devine attempted the down journey on Tuesday. He, however, came to grief at the Sliingloy Creek, near Morrison's, where he was last heard of, being pulled out by assistance from Yardley, tho carrier. Nett'efold, knowing tho state of things by the Pigroot Creek, which was barely fordable, stopped at Pigroot, making through on Thursday, as above mentioned, and going on towards Clyde. The road was, in some places, barely passable. The Kyeburn River showed evidences of having been iu very hi"h flood, tho bed having changed completely. In consequence of the Rtate of the roads, it is hopeless to expect the mails on this road to inako through oil Friday. The next mail down will probably, bo not before Monday.