THE FLOODS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3307, 12 September 1889, Page 2

THE FLOODS.

There was a heavy, fresh in the Ruamahunga river at about 2 o'clock yesterday, and it is stated to be the heaviest known for the laßt three years. No considerable damage is reported, except at Te Ore Oro where Mr P. Carr's.growing crops haye been considerably injured and a quantity of fencing wushed away. So great was the danger that Mr Carr kept his

teams in readiness to romove bis family, but fortunately tho river subsided rapidly and in about an hour's time all danger of his farm buildings being carried away had passed. This morning, Mr Can discovered tbero were ten head of his cattle missing, and he is out in Bearch of them being in doubt whetbor thoy have been carried down the river. At tho Maori Pali the dwellings wero surrounded by water and the occupants were put to considerable inconvenience Tboy made up for any discomforts they had been put to yesterday by tho enormous quantity of eels they secured this morning left by the receding waters, Several other properties on the hanks of the Ruamahunga were injured, and for a time traffic on the road was stopped

there being water on tho thoroughfares four feet in depth for about ten chains distance from the bridge, The Waipoua overflowed its banks,

and tbe water rushed down Dixonstreot, nearly to the Army barracks, and through tlio park in the low places, Up the river the groin at Mr Matthew's land was washed away, and a shingle promontory near by was scoured eff, The river Jiow

takes a direct line for the centre archway of the'railway bridge. The occupant of the house on the first Waipoua bridge, Mr 0, Pinkerton states that he stayed up all night watching the flood, which surrounded his dwelling, fearing the premises would bo inundated. The house

stands on high piles, yet the water reached the top of the doorstep. His garden was washed away along with a quantity of newly planted seeds, This is the third visitation he has received of a sinilar nature since his residence there. This morning the rivers have fallen and the weather having cleared, the danger for the present is passed.

A report was brought in this morning that a tier of piles on the south end of the Waingawa bridge,

had been washed away, and the bridge had subsided about six or eight inches. Traffic is rendered dangerous, and a notice will be put up to that effect. A slip on the railway line near Eketahuna delayed the train to Masterton about an hour yesterday, Our Greytown correspondent write that the recent Hue weather and warm heavy rains in this district has had the effect of molting the snow drifts in the ravines of the Tararua ranges, and causing the Waiohino river to overflow its shinglo bed. The crejk at tho southern end of tho town was full to overflowing for aboat two hours in the afternoon, A similar state of things likewise occarred at tho northern boundary on the Carter-

ton side of tho " Black Bridge," the water flowing across the coach road, doing much damage, The Ruamahunga was in high flood at Papawai. Possibly this superabundance of water will alluy the murmuring of our local agriculturists, who for weeks past have been prognosticating "short

returns" unless we got hoavy rain am plenty olit,