THE WEATHER UP COUNTRY.

Evening Star, Issue 3637, 19 October 1874, Page 2

THE WEATHER UP COUNTRY.

.. weather, which for some timenaat has been the moat unreasonable withip the reoonection of tljat venerable usmdgal the. oldest inhabitant, culminatedon Tuesday last in a wind storm from the south-west of unprecedented violence. For about six hours a perfect hurries. a raged, and such was its strength that yer like houses of car*,;.-.,; roofs were torn aiVay, and in some in-'.incus .five and six sheets of iron, with rafrers and battens still attached, were carried ri in the air over the tops of adjoining houses, and not alighting foriiiliy one hundred yards. Fronts bf burldmgs were blown our, outhouse* thrown over and demolished, atm other damage done that only the •{££!?..■ scene was one of confusion and terror ks during tiie fiercest of f he stork k • building in the whole town,' or at tdl events w^E e W Kpoße t f° y* m" pSy blast, but was shaWito its foundations. «, r ? ck to fcU(i ; fr °i kavingbu?a Jr that an 3* Wvui id be saved; howof Bhowin «r«»P e kg, and other T y r ere srvc d "that otherwise must have been demolish'd. About 4 ptaL,l he wind suddenly, as It rose, oeafloft and* gave us tube> to see the -d'image done. 1 ThS J prmoipkt sufferers-are .*ii<»*(soxi^thO' J irtdat«r . r part of the front of his building *1 owt and smashed j Mr Haslett’s six-itaJJ

stable unroofed; Mr Park's -eight-staLed stable unroofed ; the o d Bank of £>,ew Zsa . land stable blown down ; schoo'in aster’s residence \ erandah blown away ; Hospital Verandah blown down, building partially unroofed, and Stable entirely so, The other losses, including breaking of wu.dous. and the overturning of outhouses, ami the partial umoofibg of -buildings are eg on, including in the whole evidence sufficient iha the storm was violent in the extreme. From Black’s, Alexandra, and Cromwell, we heir that the storm was experienced, bub from the fact of no damage having-been done except in Alexandra, where one building was unroofed, it could not have been so severe at either place,as at Clyde. Mr G. helper’s Butcher's Gully Hotel, situate on the Teviot road, about, four miles from Alexandra, we learn was blown dowa during the gale. Further than, this we have not heard, and can only express surprise that the building should have beeq affected, it being most substantially built.—‘Dynstan Times.’