DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS IN THE UPPER BULLER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 179, 31 July 1871, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS IN THE UPPER BULLER.

o Intelligence has reached town of most disastrous floods having occurred in the Upper Buller district last week. The damage done is thus described by a party who have just arrived from that part : — The road on the South side of the Buller at Howard Hill has been completely washed away, and is now a watercourse of some five feet in depth; the bridge across the creek at Boreka has disappeared; the road on the other side of the Rotoroa bridge is washed away; the Mangles road in many places is completely gone, as is that near Doughboy Creek, where Mr. Grove has lost a horse by its falling over a precipice. The Maruia road is stopped by fallen trees. To the north of the Buller about 16 chains of the road between Jacklin's accommodation house and Deep Creek is destroyed, the bridge across Deep Creek is washed away, and various slips have occurred lower down near the Lyell, the result of which is that all traffic to the Lyell by the north side of the river is completely suspended. There have also been extensive slips between the Hope and Owen rivers. The floods have been the highest known for 11 years, and the Buller, in oue nigh», rose 45 feet, carrying away and drowning 150 sheep from Mr. Jacklin's paddocks, which are nearly 40 feet above tbe ordinary level of the river. An extensive piece of " fluraing," the result of many months' hard labor, which was erected across the Buller near Jacklin's has also been swept. away, as well as various other works of less extent, but of no little importance to the proprietors, and to the prosperity of the district generally.