SEVERE FLOOD AT THE THAMES. A Man Drowned.
[lit "TELEGKAPII — OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Thames, Friday Night. Ekckptioxaij.y heavy lain fell to-day for about twehe hourn, and portions of Shoitland township ha\e boon flooded by the oveiflow of the Karaka creek. Tradesmen in the vicinity of the creeks are suffenng considerable looses. A .shingle splitter named (ieorge Hill was washed down the Tararu creek by the tremendous fie*>h, and the body has been found on the beach hombly mutilated. When last seenalhe deceased was going towards the cicelc bed with the intention of prepaiing hhingle blocks, and nnmediately afteiwaid-i immense tonents of water, with a ina->s of timber, swept down the goige, and earned him before it.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1821, 8 March 1884, Page 2
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115SEVERE FLOOD AT THE THAMES. A Man Drowned. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1821, 8 March 1884, Page 2
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