Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4366, 13 March 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1893.

The storm whioli visited this district : on Friday last waa almost unparaU lolled in its severity, and now that it is over people are beginning to reckon up the losses which they have sustained by it, The first feeling is one of thankfulness that so for as the Wairarapa is concerned they are no worse, Jt reached a point when widespread disaster from flood was imminent, but happily it stopped at this stage and the damage done is not quite as seriouß as we feared. The strength of the wind which accompanied it can be traced in every garden and orchard by uprooted trees, Such a gale comes fortunately but oncoin a dozen years, and if it wore moro frequent settlers might despair ol success in fruit growing, Low lying lands wore flooded and in some instances valuable crops of late potatoes wero ruined, River banks were scoured away, and PO doubt we shall learn that in many parts of the district more or less injury Las been dono to roads and bridges. The only set off against the ravages of tho storm is the four or five inohes of rain which were left behind it, This has thoroughly saturated the ground and will be some guarantee of good feed for stock during the coming winter. We begin to entertain a profound respeofc for Captain Edwin, who on this occasion gave a clear and precise warning of the advent of the gale. The value of suoh an authoritative indication to the shipping in-» dustry must be very great. March and September have usually been the flood monthß in the Wairarapa and Masterton will not have forgotten the month of March some eight years ago, when (he ffiaipoua for a few hours took a run down the centre of the town, and turned Queen Street into a lake. Since that occurrence our Marches have fortunately, not been memorable. It was rather in I the old Wairarapa days when the j Tauherenikau, Waiohiue, Waingawa, i and Euamahunga were unspanned ' by bridges that Maroh used to be ! dreaded and September feared.. . ,

. When any hitch occurs on onr district railway line, trains seem to cease running unnecessarily, and all communication with tho department appears to be prohibited, The motto of the .Commissioners apparently is f Ypu must not speak to the man at the wheel |" Jn vain passengers! appeal to the Railway Sphini' fpr information, in vain do persons inter.)

ested in tho transit of goods" want to bow." Whether every officer of the | department ia sworn to seoreoy, whether each one of them is pledged to mystify .the public we cannot say, all we do know is that whenever the lino iB blocked the inconvenience to tlto Wairnrapa public is intensified by a want of intelligenceon the part of the powers that he.