GALE AT GISBORNE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1050, 13 February 1911, Page 4

GALE AT GISBORNE.

.'■• /SHIPPING^^E&.^SEiL'raS/': \ : '■ (By Teleeraph—Press rAssociation.);- -.■■<' "■,■■"■' '' "" Gisborne; February 12.. • •-A heavy gale" has ■ been,raging since, : Friday night, and tremendous running on the coast/'no steamer coiii-. • municatine to-day." Siveral'fvessels • have ':!■. been- nheiTering.'- ■.'The "steamer' Squall'i-. made three attempts'; fo rpund-the" East' i'y Cape from" the: north;' , but; -had .• top re-..-•'-., turn, seas sweeping >the ; decks on •:the:' ■■■ last' occasion, .whefl ' she * got as • far as ': Awanui..' The East: Cape,;'and. is -fitUh' sheltering. ' The r steamers Euru and: Fanny have arrived, from' Tβ-Araroa,--where they had been " sheltering. : . : '■:■.-"'.■..--•■.■.:v^. '■ ■■ - • :■: The JJnion Company's;: Mokoia, the Squall, "and the Hauniri,were all com- .' pelled to run for shelter at:Tβ Araroa. Even if the Mqkbia were here it would be utterly impossible to tender her, as the seas are breaking high over the break-.-water aDd groyne; The Present arrange-; -■■■ ■ ments are. to tender her at "noon to-mor-' row, but unless the :weather, improves considerably, it is possible ; that, the . - Mokoia will go right .on. ,In the meantime).a. large.number.of visitors to the. Poverty' Bay.'races, and. sixteen horses, arevweather-bound. t-■■;-, f. Rivers and creeks in" dis-. / tricts.'are flooded, .arid■' some'. stocfc: • been drowned.;-!-\ '-■ ■_ '■„ : \''-.-:-..',.-.■:-■'..'. -*?v