MALVERN.
Oar Malvern corresponded writes : —We have just experienced ihe heaviest wind we have had for the last twelve months, but, with the exception of a few minor casualties, there was no damage done in the immediate district. Some of the farmers a little lower down have had the soil blown off their growing crops, leaving the roots of cereals almost bare. The unemployed, of whom there are about 300 situated directly in the gorge of the Waimakariri, hai to leave off work on Thursday morning to prevent their tents from blowing away, many of them being blown down and driven some distance from the place where they were pitched. One tent was burnt down on Wednesday night in rather a mysterious manner, the three unfortunate occupants losing all but what they stood in. The Broken Eiver is impassable, and there are two coaches and about thirtyfive foot and coaoh passengers stuck up at the Castle Hill Hotel. Mr Newcomen’s coach, made a very good start with thirteen passengers. Every day there are from five to ten swaggers on the road to Okarito, and there seems every probability of more, aa there have been no pedestrians leaving the coast by this route for some time.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2028, 24 August 1880, Page 2
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