HURRICANE IN FIJI.
DAMAGE IN SUVA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. Starch 18, 9.55 p.m.) Suva, March 18. Yesterday tho barometrical readings indicated a climatic disturbance and this morning at fivo o'clock the glass fell steadily until at 7 o'clock the Government signal guns boomed a warning for an. approaching hurycane. At nine o clock tho gale was blowing in full force, finally dying away at eleven. Tho soap works were totally destroyed and the Union Company's unfinished hotel was damaged to tho extent of .£SOO, The other local'damage was light. Communication with outer centres is interrupted. In tho Rowa Valley the sugarcane and banana crops wero devastated for miles.' Tho Labasa and Taviuni are safe. The Tofua rode out the gale in the harbour, and tho Momma, having sheltered, reached port, safely. , > '
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1702, 19 March 1913, Page 7
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132HURRICANE IN FIJI. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1702, 19 March 1913, Page 7
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