FLOOD AT FIELDING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2712, 11 October 1887, Page 3

FLOOD AT FIELDING.

. (United Press Association.) October 11. Ik has bceu raining /heavily, .here since Sunday. Thorivers have flooded tlio lower part of the town. The, railway traffic.is stopped, all .tlie' bridges ovev tho Makino'stroam being aw.iy or. damaged .except the Manchester-street bridgOj'The railway station/yards arj).. under water, arid eotoe residents in King-street, had to .be carried out of.ljisit houses to'places. 011 higher ground. • Tljo actual damago to private property is -'email, Hut the Borough -will suffer heavily in having to build new bridges .and lnalro good' the damaged roads, ' Snow melting on . the migos is the.c&uso of tho flood OUE C«MMk\«IN CHIEF. ' Welkkgton, Octob'er-11. Sir George Whitmoroks intimated to tho Governriiebt-his willingness to continue without salary his present position as commauder" of the .New Zealand forces; ■ • Sir George is seeking legal advice, if the offer is accepted, whether he will be entitled to resume his seat in the legislative Council. The midday train from Wellington has to-day owing to a slip on the life At tho time of fining to press, it had just .arrived in Mastoitoii, . We understand that a deputation from the Tern perance bodies of Mastorton will wait upon tho committee nf the. I'mtoral Society on Saturday next, with a view of urging thorn not to allow a publiean'a booth to be opened on tlio Show grounds SholjSpftcr noon on Sunday, a little girl named Theresa Alice Hubble, aged 2 years, daughter of Mr Francis Hubble, of Ghuzneo street, Wellington, went into the yard of her' parents house to play, and as it was supposed she was porfectly safe there, no attention in particular was paid to her movements for a short.timo, Ere liittTiy minutes, however, had passed, Mr Hubbkhappened to go out, and entering tlie wasliliouse discovered the oliild

suspondod by tho nectc from one of tho ropes of a swing which 'was there cet up Ho quickly untwisted the rope, and with a mortal dread at lib heart carried tho oliild inside, wlicn, it was found to bo quite-dead At tlie irquast a verdict of Accidental Death was returned.-Press. '^jj£a. Wonsr, our Chinese draper and vondor oft«a and various other articlos, has. packed up and left us, Lee Baid he l ?'mskee no payeo in Masterton,' makce moa-monco in Wulhnton," aui so he held a clearing s;ilo and wont. Thing's ■ • must be looking very, bad,when a Chinamaniß unablato eke out a living in our midst, but -Lea's failure may be due to, his not advertising like'his opposition tradesmen, orjietkp there is 'no desiro on fhe«Mtct'tliij' Alasterton 'people to encowßtf tha6" eluea"of-, in' the townv' who are,- to say the least, of them, very undesirable.residents, and-far better afc a dittanco..,; , At noon to-day the Waipouu River was making a serious broach in Mr J. 'Dawson's au:l the adjoining properties in Villa-street,-and judging by the pro grew it was making a few hours' more win and tho river bod would bn found MUiowliere in tho vicinity of tho Theatre Kpyul, About tlircii quartern of an acre of land washed away, and fences, fruit* trees and..vegetables were | taken -up or followed the same property Mould bo allowed to wash away j and the town placed in danger, when for fchb Bum of abuut £25 a groin could be • ,erected which u'ould divert the'stream from the town into .its proper ehaimel ' . wider tho-new Waipoua bridge. ■■■> Thfc heavy rain'-has caused several -, 'serious slips on tho roads to the north of Mateton, whichhava completely stopped the traffic on the Tinui road, The Munroad is blocked at a 'point tttout hilf a' milo north of. Pino Hill, a ■> -VSlip opposite Mr Mace's, rosidonce will y ? • stop the traffic to the Kaumingi for at ' least and a. slip on the Taueru '. -ftiad /near Mr,' O'Connor's, stopped by road to the Taueru'. The fpepciint mail, which left Master■■'ton this morning, has been unable to proceed further than Kaumingi, owing to the state of the roads, and the Bideford iaail, whicfc due;. ifl t Masterton 'thi» we went ..to press, '• . " > : "

The meeting 01 tho Wairarapa Goapol Temperance ;Union, convened for this evening has been postponed owing to tho inclement weather. Tho North Wairarapa County Council meeting lapsed to-day for want of a quorum. It has been postponed till Tuesday noxt, at 1 o'clock. <meaft*yiWiW»«iMWMvutt*saaeoero»w*w»