FIERCE HURRICANE AT THE ISLANDS
9 PLANTATIONS PUT BACK A YFAK. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Suva, March 25. A hurricane was experienced at Yavau (Tonga. Islands) from March 17 to March 13. It reached its height on the Friday morning. Considerable damage was done. Plantations have been put back a year. No casualties havo been reported. A few houses were unroofed. The steamer Atiia was held up for two days. It is believed Haabai and Nukualofa escaped.
Lt.-Col. J. E. Hume and other influential officers recommend Fluenzol for camps* Many beautiful buildings of historic and religious interest adorn Cracow. There arc the great flothic Church of the Virgin, founded in 12'26, with its beautiful altar-piece by Veil Stoss and its tombs • f the mighty dead; the Dominican Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the Chinch of the University, the old Ciotbin University iUcif being of beauty and interest*
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 6
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149FIERCE HURRICANE AT THE ISLANDS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 6
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