The Storm in New South Wales
I Per Press Association.) Sydney, February 7. The Rotokino is completely repaired, and it is expected she will resume her voyage on Saturday. The captain highly eulogises the officers and crew for the splendid manner in which they worked for twenty-four hours, during which time the ship was in imminent peril. Captain Spink adds that he has been in cyclones in Chinese waters, but never had he scan anything so bad as the recent storm. The weather is again wet and squally and floods and washawaj r s are reported from the coastal districts. Nothing serious, however, has happened up to the present. Mr Wragge, of Brisbane, predicts a repetition of the gales and warns the shipping. WPfcMNGTON, This Day. The Waltatip u, frpm Sydney, arrived at 11 o'clock this morning after a passage of nearly seven days. She met the gale experienced by the Rotokino and Maori and although considerably delayed byit came through it without the slightest damage. She brings 51 saloon passengers and 48 steerage for all ports.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 188, 8 February 1895, Page 2
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