SEVERE GALE AT TIMAKU
1 CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE, (per press association.) TiMAKtr, October 4. A nor'h west avJo pprang up abont 2 a.m. and blew with great force from time to time till daylight. Two or Mireoottagea had tho Iron atripned from their rooted The rnof of the Baptist Church was stripped on one side. A number of tjuir. treo. were blown down and some 010 sheds attacked to Mliei Archer aud OtA stores p:rtly wrecked. Tho grentes l damage however, was dene at Brace's oa'meal mill, a nnrr w cix 9t.ory building of wood. This otood broadside to the and the framing of lh«j second atorj giving way the four uppor Btoreya were carried forward four feet, their fljors re maining hor xoutal. Ropea and chains have been fixed within and round the butt of the chimney to prevent farther movements. The wind changed to the South at 10. 10 a. .m
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 4 October 1888, Page 3
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152SEVERE GALE AT TIMAKU Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 4 October 1888, Page 3
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