THE RECENT STORM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4368, 15 March 1893, Page 3

THE RECENT STORM.

T&mnaki Suffers Sadly, Damages Assessed at £15,000. {By Ssfegrapk—Prees Association.) Hawssu, Tuesday. the co natty dist riots th»t great damage Ina i&m dobe to roads, and on the Wftiswie Plaint), awarly ail traffic is saspmisa& and ■sttlem and local govarstkig bodies mea likely to be vary aad culverts are down in all tiSreertssßs, and on isaaj &ros there - have been heavy Josses of sheep. On cos firm there aire 700 caresses of sheep piled six feet deep in thedilches - Bad in aoews plaoas where the animals hsjd'irnn to escape the storm it is iw possible to set at the amount of the damage, but tho estimates go as high aa fifteen thousand pounds. In the Hawera and Taranaki ooun> ties tho mail serviee is being carried on under great difficulties, hut it is that the railway wit) be alear is » day or two, and that coach fa« resumed in the 'oourse of %ht w«ek. THE FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA. Bodm Found In the Debris. s@rims Damagsio Railways. Simsr, March 14. Thr««.btsltas--!S)o8» of two men iiaesed Hunt and Waller and a woman assiwil Aklflrson —hnvtt in en recovennl at Maltltedj and it is feared that othsrs will be found as the flood wau-r recedes, Yefy veriotta damage has been done to tiia ustlway lines. Tiießi*ach from the decaying bodies of aes'is»{a drownsd iu the flood is intolerable* '