STORMY WEATHER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1504, 29 July 1912, Page 6

STORMY WEATHER.

MAORI HAS A ROUGH PASSAGE. HEAVY SNOWFALL. (By Tclegrapli.-Prces Association.) ' tn . Christchurch, July 27 1 10 rough weather on the coast still continues, but appears to be moderating, hceamers arriving at Lyltolton this moranig reported a strong gale, heavy seas, and urn try weather conditions oft' shore. ihe turbmo steamer Maori had a mui'li passage from Wellington, the wcathci• ft. ig very bad ,n Cook Strait. Slio had to m,l? T" at hlll all the May, to. make her■ connection, with the first expre., („ r the south. This is tho third had Up in succession tor t'lie ilaori this week, „ ,1 1° f^ 0 , ft , eood "fight" last night morning 3 ' ftt 7 °' clo ' k "»» Telegraph dispatch work in both, the Wh and South Islands is being carried on under .lillicult conditions.ifi,, faff oi snow on the ranges have nearly d "or- '!« *>•*«"}>: «i>U communism with many places has been cut off. Tho operators, who commenced duty in Chmtchurch office last evening wo.W right •on till 8 o'clock this morning? when they were relieved up till 10 p.ul S tcrday they only had the use of one shaky" wire to Wellington. Then they managed to ge a "good" wire, via Ilea e/ Weuln^o, 1 ' U ° U - a ' l d t ,Ble.d.eim, o* Wellington. It was a quad" '»-lii«-hi means that four men could use'it at ho same time The messages had been pUwg iip, and from 10 p .,„. thl!v , vero l^ t on at the rate of 200 an hour, 'in addition llJn,? Ivlr ?'„ tl, ° department had now another good "quad" to Groymouth, and the Groymouth ofbco was relieving Christchurch of some of the North Island work! At - p.m. to-day there wore GOO inessijrcj waiting to go on in tho Christchurch olhce, which is now the transmitting centre for the wholo of- the South Island. Kunediu, for instance, usually lias the use- of a direct wire to Wellington, but this has sagged under tho weight of stow like, many others. All tlio north wires aro down between Waiau and Kaikonra, and tho officer in charge at Waiau has reported the fall of enow to be tho heaviest, that has fallen there for twenty years. It is three feet deep m tho township itself. Gangs of moil hayo been sent out from Kaikoura and Waiau on repair work, and this afternoon a gang of five men, ■firstolass linesmen, were dispatched to "proceed from Ohristclwirch and work in ti» direction of Waiau. They have been instructed to go over tho wholo section and effect per. maneut repairs between Waiau and. Khikoura. There is no likelihood of thens. wires being ready for somo time, as ihey have been broken in dozens of places.