PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1782, 8 September 1884, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

' (From our own Friday.' The rain began about nine on Monday; on Tuesday it came down, most terrific,' causing the Mangatinoke to rise very rapidly, l and backing the wtter uu iu a}l'' the little creeks, added to which the river overflowed at the back of Boylp's sections, and having done so spread Very near all over the Bettlement: the water in some cases rising to the height of eighteen inches in some of the houseß, but doing, nb' damage'. A few chains of paling fence was laid down by logs drifting against them. In no case was there any danger to life, The Hughes' Bros, have lost rather heavily in ewes and lamhs,. further that'that!have not heard of any lobb, The Eoad iB cut up in places between Tutiekara and the Manawatu; the approaches to the bridge having suffered, The Mangatinoki bridge has a piece six feet long cut clean out of the upper side girder, leaving that side of the bridge suspended by the trusses—the water was flowing between two and three feet over the deck of the bridge, At the Manawatu the contractor's plant and effects have had some rough usage, which will have the effect of delaying the work for some time. But saddest of all witb the loss of life.- Mrs McKenzie and Mrs Peevie being drowned in an attempt to cross the backwater between their house and the railway embankment on the Woodville side. The raft struok astumpand lipset throwing Mr Seevie and Mr McKenzie, junr,, and the two women into the water, and in spite of the efforts of the men the raft broke away from them with the women clinging to it, The two men being very near exhausted also, Mrs McKenzie's body was found about two miles down tlie river yesterday afternoon, The Manawatu was pot the feast up or discolored; had it been so the flood would have exceeded the one of three years ago, as it was it came up to it within three feet. The weather still looks threatening, The mail Jias just arrived on a pack horse, and will return immediately in haste.