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FRESH ON THE HAWKESBUBT.
(ihm faeHaaWs Wm&ur Cbrmpondml.)
The weather of late has been very unsettled ;
for the last fortnight there has scarcely been a
fine day. The rain, however, up to Wednesday
had been but light, aud not such as to occasion
any apprehension of a flood. It commenced
raining heavily_ about 4 o'clock yesterday morn
ning, and continued incessantly the whole day,
with the wind about north-east, which
is considered by most persons as a danger-
ous quarter, since the big flood of 1867. By
2 o'clock in the afternoon the river had risen
several feet, preventing the punt from working.
Is continued to rise with considerable rapidity
up to 10 p.m., when it was ten or eleven feet
ahovo high water. It is now about sixteen feet
above that mark, and still slowly doming up.
There is a large sheet of water, occasioned by the
rise in the South Creek, visible along the
flat below M'Grath's Hill and Mulgrave.
The chain of ponds have overflown in
some'places, and partially flooded the corn below
Robertson's Hill on the Richmond Road, but as
yet no damage has been sustained. It is to be
hoped that the weather will take np, and a flood
be averted, as suoh a visitation just now could I
nqt but be most disastrous to the maize crop,
which is thought to be the most luxuriant that
has been for years, and is fast ripening. There
ia also a large quantity of luceme in stacks, which
would be destroyed by a flood of ordinary dimen-
sions. The farmers in the low lands of Corn-
wallis, mindful of past misfortune, often aggra-
vated by their unwillingness to leavo their
homes, however inseoure, were busy all yester-
day afternoon and evening removing their stock
and effeota to the high lands. There has not
been much rain to-day and it is at present fine,
with every appearance of the weather olearing
up. The sun is shining.
Thursday, 3 p.m.
THI GOTBENOE'S SALARY.-The bill to fix
the salary of the Governor, introduced by Mr.
Cowper on Wednesday last, proposes the repeal
of so much of the Constitution Act as fixes the
Governor's salary *i £7000 a year, and provides
that there shall be oharged upon and paid out
of the Consolidated Bevenne Fund in eaoh year
to the Governor of the colony for the time being
the sum pi £6000 ; nothing in tbe act, however, j
to affect (Kb salary of the present Governor. '
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