MORRINSVILLE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVILLE, Monday.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 381, 3 July 1889, Page 2

MORRINSVILLE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVILLE, Monday.

On Saturday kfit, f as the Chairman and Clork of the Waitoa Road Board were on their way to attend the nieeting of the , Board, held at MorrioßVilJe that day, on nearing Morrinsville they Jearncd fiom one of Mr Turn bull's sons that they con Id not get to the place of meeting- with their horses, on account of a culvert having been washed away near the lailway bridge at Morrinsville. So, consigning their horses to their informant, they, along with Mr J rurnbull, proceeded on foot, and found on arriving at the place where the culvert had been, a m.mberof men employed in putting two long beams of wood across, to enable foot passengers to go over. It appears Mr Hnnißon, Manager of the Lockerbie Estate, on finding the culvert had been Washed away, employed the men to fetch ' the beams and lay them across. It was al«o found that the culvert next the Nottingham Castle Hotel, Morrinsville. on the load to Hamilton, had been washed away. Mr Harrison, on ascertaining both culverts were pone, knowing that it would take pome time to replace thorn, very kindly came to the rescue, and not only allowed the temporary use of some bridge timber fiat happened to be on the estate at some distance from Morrinsville, but also promptly employed men to fetch the timber and construct two temporary bridges, which work they completed before nightfall. It is scarcely necessary to say that the members of the Hoad Board are very much obliged to Mr Harrison for the assistance so kindly and promptly rendered. Such heavy rain as fell last Friday nit»ht and Saturday has not been remembered for many yenis past ; and the livers and ureekß in thin district have not been known to be so flooded at any time witliin the last fourteen years. The Waitoa Road Board will ose considerably by the floods, several bridges having been washdd away, two of which had only very reotntly been constructed ; and the cost of ie-placing these two alone is estimated at about £30 to £40 The sheep and yojng lambs (of which latter there are A few to be seealready) had u trying time of it for sev days, but, so far as I hare heard oral were lost. ! "c" e Udtrenchmeot in expends ' order of the day in conne «vp j« the Lnckerb.e estate. Ope- ,tip n with the \wil in iuture be carri Ltions I believ . jew before Aeß- jd^n puch a^ Ihey' 1 here is to be ,- $$- J& . t o ve £ growing for soYs oV grain cient oats to et ' J ft u , uffi . The plac to supply .horbe feed. w»eop j p fa bQ stockcel principally with T e I VP7. lui '^^ nu'nbdr of 'yv.'uch will '" «Tf PP i b !'' H ieve « oi "othing hkfi 20,000, o^rfn c Several teuuw will fc-o keut Jping , as of eourne a large area of Mrni> gio\yn gl ° eiJ cro & "? il[ httV ? . t0 T