FLOOD AT HOKITIKI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2643, 9 July 1887, Page 3

FLOOD AT HOKITIKI.

f.r... (UnitedPbebs.Associaiiok.) ..-..' HOKITIKI, July 7. • A- heavy north westerly gale Ims been- blowing' bince Mouday night, accompauied' wMr torrents, of rain. . The.rivers irjf in high flood. The ; '.',dpiagaaHo'ut.Hok.itilJi and the South. :.',ii;slight,as ni ,'f\ i-sont• reported ■:; : but serious.::-.Tele-;.'|rapli.ic communication baa beei; inter-: ; rsfciMed.'since:,Tuesdayi lb;e roads ;.-.■Jraff/Jteeji'.impassable. The flood : rpached,its higbwitAt Aralmra at 8 / o'clock on Weducsday morning, when' ■ it was tho'heaviest •known''.for:.lß ycira. the river broke •through...Mr Millar's farm, and a "laije :body of water came down'' the 'creek on the Muth sido of Quiuii's hotel;; cutting ftw.fly the road in front of tbo liotol, .carrying away two feet of the bridge,. ind covering grass'paddocks withland and shingle. Another stream" down ;ibe old Ohristchurob road, J^oaringiouror five' chains dway. Mr v ioße3 several hundred pounds. '■l. MrThbmpsbn'B Lousecldsc to tbe bridge. .stood-on. an-klandy the rivor on the I norlJi.Kide, the two streams mentioned :ijuuuwgpaßton.the -south.; "Mr Mc ■>'Xenzie'B hoiiße'waß.;iu a very d.aiigor- . it being, cut off from all ■. by^deep;water. .The water deep enough

to float, and large logs are bumping against the sides, shaking it seriously, The railway bridge, in course of emotion, is uninjured; 'Hie." drawbridge lib escaped injury, but the Hvor cut away an immense.pieco out of the old Maori settlement,, andull the temporary protective works were swept out.to sea.; The dolphin pile in front of the Tere;. roakan .bridge is carried away, but the .breastwork, .lately'erected,-isatbdmj js squ'ftltyV.witU