FLODS AT PAEROA.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4629, 5 November 1883, Page 2

FLOODS AT PAEROA.

Considerable Damage Done.

[By Telegraph.].

(fbom oxjb own coebesfondent.)

Paeeoa, This day.

The heavy rains of Friday and Saturday have done considerable damage. The fluming of the Karangahake battery has been carried away, and with* 3 it a large quantity of timber stacked at the battery. Three of the bridges on the Waihi road are carried away; and the communication is stopped. A large quantity, of timber lying on the landing at Paeroa, for Alfred Shepherd's mew hotel at Karangahake was also swept away by the flood.

In crossing the Komata on Saturday, Mr E» Cock Kad ajnar^ow^escape of his life; :-"Mt Kieljr^ofl Waitekaurju who. was following him, bad to turn back. ' A large quantity of the Waitekauri* battery fluming is carried away.

(FROM ANOTHEB CORRESPONDENT.)

The flood of Saturday last, in the Ohinemuri district, was very severe. The Waitekauri bridge is blocked with timber, some of it higher than the hand-rail; and trees over fifty feet in length are lying on the upper side of the bridge. The flood at Owharoa was within two feet of the large flood of July, and the quantity o floating timber was larger. The fluming of the Karangahake battery at the head works, and where it crosses the Waitewhetu Creek, was completely carried away,.. At Paeroa the river rose seven feet in about a quarter of an hour. The small bridges on the Katikati road were moved from their position. -No damage done to the fluming o* battery at ■: Waihi. All the large County bridges are : safe...