THE WEATHER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4346, 16 February 1893, Page 3

THE WEATHER.

i, Tho recant heavy jns on tbc hills tokmsed all tho rivers ii this district to Bswoll very consideral'y and in many places tho wators live risen higher than for several yeartpt. Yesterday the Ruamahucga caio down in groat volume, and in som portions o{ tho Te OreOrc Road UiowatoE was up to lie saddle girths ofbrsemen. It is rumoured lhaaNative woman and three children hae been drowned, but nothing dofinit can be ascertained, On the main road juth from Mastertoa the damage di.e is very considerable, the Waingaa River having cut a large hole in thapproach lo the bridge at tho north e3. The bulk of tho water it now ctjing down in a channel about forty 'oct wide which

it Ima scoured out on the Masteito: side of tbo bridgo which so fur rc mains uninjured. At Greylowu tbo Waiobine was ii flood on Tuesday and Wednesday, bu subsided during last night, A largi quantity of debris is left behind at thi fences. A bull, which wns buried it the bed of the old oreek running alonj Wood-street, was wished up, Thi carc-jso floated along uutil it reachei the Firo Brigido Station (which ii built over the creek bed), when it goi stuck. Some of the flooring of th< building, and planks of tlio adjoining bridgo hud to bo removed, anc the beiiet eased along until ii passed tbo bridge, when the watei carried it further down. Hud nol tbo work been dono immediately il would bnvo been difficult to remove the carcase aftor the flood had subsided. owing to its state of decomposition.