TELEGRAPHIC.

Inangahua Times, Issue 19, 2 October 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[BX" KLECTRIO i'BLEGR.VPH.] [pub rnnaa Adaoor.iTroN] Hokitika, October 1. Tho Supremo Court will not open before Thursday next. Balolutiu, October 1. Flood subsiding, but very slowly. Kvorybody here Brtfo now. Over one hundred people are i« tho Crown Hotel, about the only place in tho TJixlcluflm fl.ifc inhftbirablo. Plooi-r of tho National nnd Now South Wales Oflicos, New Zealand Lonn Agones, and ChriHtio, CommiHaion jAgont, aro dry. Many hves saved by real'y gul* Ij n'". rescuers. A mnn and his wifo in v houao fiontod down tho rivor and over part of an ish.nd for a diitanco of nearly poven miles. Everybody doing their v I moat to render assistanco to those in distroes. Tho settlers in the ridges nro very hospitable, nnd deserve special montion for tboir rnnny Icindneßst'R. On Island, Inch Clulhn, mo Car ns known everybody has been Hiived, Good qunntity of onttio gpb on to high land. Damage done ino.vlculablo, ICnitangata and Stirl'n^ suffered soverely. Tho water wns nvor n foot" in tho Tolear.iph Offi-e hpro, but the te'ographiNfc slu k to hw post, throughout, although at ono timo apparently untenable. Weather was (luo, but tho high wind kopt 'iho river up. Tho worst is believed <o he ovor. Tho Molyneux has been flooded ovor six days.