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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2529, 13 February 1877, Page 2

NAPIER.

Monday; • The flood is the highest experienced for twenty years. Two boats went out on Saturday afternoon from the Spit along the Taradale road to Taradale, and

several families were removed from their houses, where they were in danger of drowning. In one house the husband , .n . j- , „ • - , and wife were standing up to their waists m water, and the children climbing up on the beds. The boat went in to the doorway, but there was not room between the top of it and the surface of the water without the people in the boat stooping V . , .■■■n. • down m bor. After removing some people to a place of safety, the pilot boat, with a load of other men, women, and children, was caught by an eddy and swept about, but ultimately they were ii it <• t, -4.»^ i*. »*a iu«^ D enabled to fasten it to a tree, and there remained all night in . the ram. Ihe houses in Taradale were much knocked about. A good many carcases of sheep were washed on the beach. The approadjes to IU Waitangi bridge were carried away. On the railway line a bridge embankment was undermined, and half washed away. The bridges themselves were uninjured, but some ballast on the line was swept oft The trains are . i -Tt i • • not running to-day. It ceased raining yesterday till evening. Several heavy showers camo to-day, but the waters are subsiding, though slowly. ,■-•-. '