THE CHATHAM ISLANDS.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 636, 25 January 1872, Page 2

THE CHATHAM ISLANDS.

SEVERE GALES

(from our own correspondent.)

December 30, 1871. On Saturday, the 23rd inst., the islands were visited with the severest gale of wind that has perhaps ever been felt. In the morning it blew from the north-west, about noon it changed to south-west and continued to increase in violence until midnight. During the squalls it was enough to tear all before it; the crops have suffered more or less. The only damage done on shore was done to the boat-house on the beach, the doors were burst open and the whole building got a cant from a heavy sea rolling up into it, thereby wetting a quantity of wool lying there ior shipment ; it is now in course of repacking. The Magellan Cloud had a iiard time of it, she left Owenga for Pitts Island on the morning of the gale and was blown off. She put into Whangaroa on "Wednesday Isst in a sad plight, having lost three boats and slightly damaged her cargo. Mr Jones is very unfortunate in some of his trips, and it is to be very much regretted, for he lias Jstuek manfully to the place through good and bad. January 3, 1872. Tho Magellan Cloud sails to-day with a full cargo of wool.