FIERCE GALE IN THE NORTH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2209, 12 October 1907, Page 2

FIERCE GALE IN THE NORTH.

SHIPPING. DELAYED.

Press Association. \ AUCKLAND. Oct. 11, Stormy weather prevails all along' the coast, and shipping is delayed at various ports. The scow Ziugara, bound from Gisborne to Mangonui,, put into Auckland last night to shelter from the gale. The barques Aldebaran and James Craig, which left port over a week ago, are still in the Gulf, where they have been detained by the weather. All the coastal vessels report a heavy sea and stormy weather on the coast. A strong westerly gale is blowing on the west coast. The sea on the Mianukau bar is exceptionally heavy, and the Oneliunga shipping is tied up in consequence. The Talrapuna from the south did not reach Oneliunga until 11.15 o’clock this morning, having had a boisterous trip up from New Plymouth.

At noon to-day the signalman at the Heads advised that the .bar was impassable, and the’sailings of .the different vessels announced for today were accordingly postponed until to-morrow. During the gale the. Harbor Board’s big dredge squeezed', the Ferro-Concrete Company’s piledriver against the Railway Wharf,"' with the result that the punt, con-' tamine a donkey engine, toppled over, the slieer-legs resting on the wharf. Several windows were blown in by the wind.