HARAPEPE.
The Lwe Flood,-In this district we have been getting an enormous quantity of rain of late, and last Monday put the climax to it, as I think on that (lay there was about tho greatest downpour there has been in one day for many years, It was water, water everywhere; but not quite so bad as tho ancient mariner bad it-not a drop to drink, Tho Waipa River is higher than it has been for many years; more far-reaching, I think, than what is spoken of as the great flood, Last night the goods store on the bank of the river at Te Rore was just visible. The road from Harapepe to To Rore is impassible at present, as the water has washed away all the earth where a. new culvert had been put in, leaving a large cwty across the road, Many of the farmers have lost all their potato crops on the low land, and a great deal of the high land sown with turnips is washed hare to the yellow subsoil; in fact damage has been done to all the crops. The Mangapiko Creek is so high that no mail could be got either out or in yesterday, and to-night it is still raining.— (Own correspondent, January 19th).
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Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3211, 24 January 1893, Page 2
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