Later Particulars.

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

Later Particulars.

Pain has again set in and is kmf , heavily as we go to . Mr T. P.Lett despatched a special ■ coach to Featherston at noon to-day, : A number of gentlemen went down to attend the late Mr Skeet's funeralWagland's flaxmill on tho Waipouo, , is swept away, Several of the protect ; tive willows are also torn up. The Euamahunga Biver is steadily ; encroaching on tho approach to the ' bridge on the Masterton eido. ' A number of the largest trees in 1 the Masterton Park have beon blown down. ; Mr S. Mawley, of Ditton. Wangaehu, supplies' us with tho following i notes from his own observations!— Rainfall for 24 hours,registered on tho ' 11th inst.—s*7B inches. Over four ' inches of this amount fell in thirteen hours, This greatly oxceed? all previous records, my obserVtfftjdating from May, 1880. 0-94 mdbes was registered on the 12th inst,, making a total -of G'72 inches for tho two days. Mr Bennett, of Otahiiao, supplies us with the following particulars of thorainfall during tho late storm ;—For tho 24 houra, ending 9 a.m, on Saturday March lith,s'76 inches, This is the heaviest rainfall'ever previously recordod at Otahuao the next heaviest being 3*lß inches on the 11th November 1888, (By Telegraph-Own Correspondent.) Geettown, Monday, No ecrious damage has been sustained here through the late storm, beyond trees and fruit' being blown down,