WAITAHUNA.

Tuapeka Times, Issue 1, 15 February 1868, Page 3

WAITAHUNA.

(Feom oub Owk Coerespondext.) The only topic of conversation for the last ten days haa\ been, of course, the flood, and unhappily its effects have been such that it is not, )ik"ly to be soon forgott >n. A .^::<L>:)a.- '■ !'.> hnt :v:.J'-cl mWaitahuna i-v more i\-\:i twelve ■>'cai.i otntes that the •; 1 1-.- "_>"-> bv/ui ■Vy m; '.I feet' than on any rve-vli-'ij-' ---cc- .on hvv.ic, th-\t ot-riod ; and it i'< 4 ■y-nii'da.nCy '>K : t»J -"h-it.! 1.,.i- been much })H<ii»r to'iii a: a.!-/ 'in c j'-xi'.-'Q 'he last^six y-'ji-s. Tlu da:iia c :w::^ J •-■ much more so.--.-r t!i> >. ".; i' -• - : '- • "-" % do us flood, iiul ■" £<■:• -- :■:.'.. t '.' iv \Vaita- <; . ~> -.-".-.. . -nt. The : , ; . • . v ' entirely - - ■ "-'•,■,■..■- "ed, their i , ; > - . • els carried . - ■ ■ t them will, : - • placed # ,on • , ■ iio parties •; -:• , _.••-.'■- • /scall- and • > _• -, - • iud tools . ' -.- ■, ] /«• of four _ . -.„ ■■^■l r nullified. ,-',*• " ''ye weeks -. , when thfi >'..-.. ". to all over afrain. Li iK- .', ■ ..i -"■ Gully, the damage sustained is also geti.-i-.u ai 1 excessive. A great many claims are entii- y levelled. Many parties who had just got iljbo working order from the previous floods urfkgam worse than ever ; in fact, for some, it Wl be nearly us difflciilt to open their claims |s if the flat were for the first time being wro :ht. Where all have severely suffered, it is aj lost needh ss to mention the parties who havl ustained the heaviest loss. Simpson and Ms party will take six or seven weeks to get ffimga to right — Kyans and his party nearljjns long ; while at the upper end of the flat Ihe claims and races of Henley, Hickey ancOl'Donald are entirely levelled. The aggreWe loss to the miners at Havelock and Wijahuna, I have Jieard estimated by compe|nt parties at £2000— no small sum among flic limited num.ber of miners now engagedftn mining here. Nor have the miners onWexporionecd the effects of the flood. Thijfarmers on the banks of the river have Mffered still more severely. Mr. Brown hi/ had fences and crops damaged to the valuef/t £100. Through Mr. Cutler's paddock jfe river lias cut a channel nearly half a clJi wide and four feet deep. Messrs. Miller /id L <>dlie have also suffered considerably fpni injury to their crops, fences, and housl. When to this it is added that the bridgJover the Waitahuna was partly carried o.wj, and that the rond was. in several places Jich damaged, the great loss sustained by tIW district may in some degree be estimated. / There is much reason for gratitude that tl're was no loss of life, though some of thelesidents of Waitahuna had some difficully f eftectiug their escape.