DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD AT THE THAMES. A MAN MISSING. [BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2246, 30 November 1886, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD AT THE THAMES. A MAN MISSING. [BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Graiiamstown, Monday. Thk heaviest and most disastrous flood which has taken place during the past five Years was experienced here last night, and the damage is likely to be as great as that ciused by the flood of 1882. For some days the weather had been very broken, with occasional showers, and yesterday morning there was every appearance of a storm, the clouds gathering all day, and about five o'clock the rain which had threatened commenced to fall. It continued throughout the night. Grahamstown partly escaped, but several shopkeepers in Pollen • street, Shortland, lost considerably, owing to the Karaka Creek over -flowing the street and shops were covered with water to a depth of two feet. When this subsided mud nix inches deep remained. A man named John Wall, caretaker of the water-race, if missing. It was his duty to keep the grating clear at the head of the Kauer*nga, some ten miles from here. It is surmised he was doing so, when he, by tome means, slipped into the river, and was carried away. The storm has now cleared.