BALCLUTHA.
Tuesday. The flood is subsiding. Over one hundred people are in the^prown Hotel, which is almost the only place in the Balclutha Sat inhabitable. The floors of the National and New South Wales Banks, add the offices of the New Zealand
Loan Agency, .and Christie's, commission agent, are dry. /Many lives were saved by really gallant rescues. A man and his wife in a house floated down the river and over part of the island for a distance of nearly seven miles. Everybody are doing their utmost to render assistance to those in distress. The settlers on the ridges are very hospital, and 'deserve special mention for their many kindnesses. On the island of InchClutha, so far as known, everybody has been saved. A good quantity of cattle got on to the highland. The damage done is inestimable. The Kaitangata and Sterling suffered severely. The water was over a foot in the telegraph office, but the telegraphist stuck to his post throughout, although at one time apparently'untenable. The weather is now fine, but a high wind is keeping the river up, but the worst is believed to be over. The Mplyneux has been flooded for over six days.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3005, 2 October 1878, Page 2
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