THE TORM IN HAWKE'S BAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 468, 3 April 1894, Page 3

THE TORM IN HAWKE'S BAY.

ileuere Damage, graph.—Press Association.) Napieb, Monday, Eighc nches of rain fell, in thirtyfive ho i from Saturday night to MondaC norning. Tarn le and Meanse were, for a few ho, I,- in a worse plight than during I a floods in December last; but the; iter quickly subsided on the oooaaion rf rain to-day. Farndon was also leavily flooded. In Potane Valley tl water was higher than ever knewn 'ore. Olive was clear from flood. . ; :•".- A g6 many Bhoephave been lost, but thY ssgh of stock are insignificant win l compared with those of Decern!' , as the water? ruse more gradually and there was time to move thjJßtock.. ... • It. is ported that much damage basbeen?lone in the couctcy. The rain was aocompanied by a gale of i iprecedented severity, and the chief amagewas to gardens' and fences, si enormous number of large trees kit. blown down, A very leavy sea was running, and seas 30 ft t deep swept over the cant of the bn kwater, but no damage of any. jmpe ance wris ''one either to the bredkwaii orthewlaif. The mole to the we t of the breakwater now under « etruotion was, however, heavily di naged, about 400 feet being swept awi'. .The loss is about £2OOO The oram ilso went over into the tea,