TONGAPOROTU.
(Our Own Correspondent,) Rivers and creeks have been in h>gh fliod list week. The rain fell continuously from Sunday to Fiiday, the creeks being higher than they have been for yeara. One creek, the Monga Modga, is full of dead cattle, whether drowned or having been dead and carried away by the volume of water your correspondent kDOweth cot. The roads, too, have suffered, ths main roid b iog blocked for all traffic in the held of the Mimi valley with slips, and culver's washed away. The river overfl )ws the read in this valley every fresb, and it has washed it well this time. Feed is plentiful, but there is heavy mortality among young stock which have been purchased outside. The grass being most likely too watery for separator constitution. One or two fresh settlers have come on to their sections on the upper part of the liver, and a few more have taken up land recently. There has not been much shooting in the p'ace this season only pigeons, which are plentiful, last season being a close ore.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 121, 23 May 1903, Page 4
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181TONGAPOROTU. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 121, 23 May 1903, Page 4
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