HBH 1890 June 3 Local news Page two Advertisements Mr H DAVIES, dental surgeon will visit WAIPAWA next Saturday Joseph RICKARD-BANKRUPT - Bootbaker-Adjudged a bankrupt. Meeting of creditors to be held at Court house next Friday morning Sales-Mr WELLWOOD's rooms Section 41 OPOITI. Wairoa Military settlement Also Will of lease of WHANGAPAROA block-together with sheep, cattle, horses, station plant, buildings &c., C B HOADLEY and Co at Napier LOCAL STORM The storm on Saturday night appears to have been unusually severe on the Bluff Hill, blowing down the fences at Mr Reynolds's house and carrying away a large shed at the rear. Beams weighting over 2cwt were along with the roof deposited and carried seventy feet away , on Mr Caldwell's premises, striking the corner of his house, smashing the ridge capping and guttering, and doing other damage A sheet of galvanized iron was lodge high in the branches of a tree, where it remains fixed. The storm was most terrible, for about an hour, inmates of houses in the immediate neighborhood being terribly frightened. WEST CLIVE The TUKI TUKI which adjoins the NGARURORO, near the latter's mouth is very full, and it is really the TUKI TUKI that is causing the overflow. Round by the premises of Messrs LASCELLES and RUDDICK, and all the way down to Old Clive, there is a large amount of water on the land, extending almost to Mr MACPHERSON'S place on the Mill Road. The WAITANGI creek is very high, the water from it pouring into the swamp like a mill race. MEETING ST PAUL'S IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY HAD A GOOD ATTENDANCE LAST NIGHT. Mr R C HARDING presided