The Storm at Onehunga.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1678, 5 July 1875, Page 2

The Storm at Onehunga.

From accounts sent in by our correspondents at Onehunga, it would appear that the storm has been felt very severely on the shores of the Manukau. The following are some of the casualties reported": —Gibbons' wharf has sustained considerable damage, a large portion of the outer woodwork being knocked away. Mr Rose's wharf has also been mutilated by the wind and waves. The government wharf is much shaken, but no actual damages has been done to it. Portions of the old coal wharf are blown away. Buckland's catttle punt was upset, and 37 pigs, just arrived by the s.s. St Kilda, have been drowned. • The cutter Dante has been driven nearly into the Royal Hotel windows. t>ome of the timber stacked at Gibbon's yard has been blown two hundred yards from where it was stacked, and the quantity of firewood, strewed along the beach shews that it could not have been a pleasant place for loving couples last night.

The Maid of Italy* at present chartered by the Provincial Government for harbour service, has been driven on the rocks alongside the causeway of the Mangare Bridge ; her copper has been torn off; she is also bilged and minor damage done. The men were employed in taking down the old beacon off the end of the wharf. The gale last night has finished their job wholesale. The cutter Two Sisters, slightly damaged, was this morning, in company with the Maid of Italy, aground by the bridge. This structure has not altogether escaped, and will want some repair. There is nc damage done in the township.

About 50,000 ft. timber from Gibbons' wharf was strewed along the beach. The steamer Waikato, under repair, was berthed alongside the wharf, but the stern lines were fixed to that part of the wharf still standing, and the workmen employed on the steamers ran out anchors, &c, so that the Waikato has got off scot free. All along the beach the sawn timber and stacks of firewood have been jumbled up together. A five pound note will make good all damages to the Dante. Mr Roe's timber wharf still stands, but wants a few carpenters for a day or two. The men on board the Two Sisters had to swim ashore.