THE WEATHER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4365, 11 March 1893, Page 3

THE WEATHER.

Heauij kinjall in the WaiKtpa. Traffic Suspended. rain set in at Mastorton yesterday (Friday) morning, and has continued without intermission up till the time of our going to pim Business in the town is almost suspended and several of the streets are a sheet of water, Owing to a number of culverts becoming choked Mr Betty (tho Borough overBeer) has been up all night and tbe Borough staff is now hard at work clearing the water courses. All tho rivers and streams are much swollen and are still rising, tho low-lying lands in the neighbourhood of Masterlon being completely inundated, The water is in several houses, traffic is disarranged, tho train not proceeding this (Saturday) morning, and tho train from Eketahnna being delayed until ten o'clock, Telegraph communication between Masterton and Wellington is interrupted, It is feared tho wires are down on theßimutaka. Tlie Waipoua Kiver is higher than for several years past, all the cottagis in tho immediate vicinity aro surrounded, and o large portion of the Park is flooded, It has also broken through Villa streetat rlieplnce.where the County Engineer (Mr C. E. Bremner) recommended protection works some time ago, and a stream is flowing down Dixon street, the lower end of which is cut off. At the liotfom of Church street the »uM' is in several 1 of the houses. Messiii Moore and \V. ]!. Bone have removed their families 1 About 100 sheep r elonging to .Mr 1 Walker, pasturid in paddocks near ' the Waipoua, are reported to have 1 been drowned, ( The Rnamahungn is a roaring 1 torrent. The road is covered in places ' with water several feet deep, Three * thousand sjieep for the Wellington fi Meat Export Company are stuck up c at tho Eketahuna side of tho bridge. c Several rumours are flying about " the town to the effeot that a large fi quontity of stock has been drowned and also jLat the Waingawa railway 1 bridge is down.

Four and a quarter inches of rain have fallen during the twenty-four hours ending at nine o'clock this mornitig, By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent, Featherbton, Saturday, A heavy rain has fallen here for the last 24 hours. Several streets and the approaches to the Railway Station areunderwater, in some places two feet deep. There have been several slips between Maurioeville and Mangamaboe. WE FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA, Tremendous Rise In the Nepean River. Sydney, March 9, k furious southerly gale, with heavy rain, has been raging for the last two days. Railway and telegraphic communication beyond the Hawkesbury are interrupted, The lowlying couDtry around Newcastle it flooded, and the police have had to rescue people in boats, LAJEST. ' Great Damage at l/lest Maitland, A Chapter of Fatalities. Newcastle, March 10, BgEßtefepQ portion of West Maitland lsunaWfciter, and many hundreds of people are homeless. _ News from up the river states that the river ba3 risen 49ft, and ii still rising. The greatest flood ever known here is expected. At Branxton two brothers named Russell and a man named llowitt were drowned, Two men named Hunt and Wall were drowned at Leith, and a man named Kuhn perished at Raymond terrace, Newcastle, March 9. A fearful sea is running outside. The captain of the brig Hebe, from Sydney, found bis vessel was unable to live, and drove her ashore in ordei to save life. She became a total week, but her crew were saved, A Btoamar. to be the Federal, fromwrojirne, is ashore at Stockton, about a mile from Newcastle on the northern side of the harbour, A lifeboat and a tug are standing by her. .