AUCKLAND SHIPPING.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.} May 25,1567. The schooner Neva, Captain Young, arrived here this morning, from the South Sea Islands, with fruit, &c. She is 17 days from Rorotonga via Savage Island, and reports experiencing very bad weather throughout. A tremendous hurricane swept over Rorotonga on the 27th March last, destroying all the crojjs of coffee, oranges, cocoa nuts, &c.,—the sea. rising as high as 25 feet in some places, and sweeping houses, &c., and everything before it. The hurricane is described as worse in violence than that which visited the Islands last year. The Missionary barque John Williams has been totally.lost on a reef at Savage Island, —the wreck being afterwards purchased by the celebrated Captain Hayes, of the brig Rona, for S6OO. The schooner Sea Gull, from Auckland, had put into Rorotonga leaky, and to repair damages. Her cargo was nearly all destroyed. The schooner Pacific, Captain Bates, is reported as discharging cattle at the Tamaki .this morning, from Norfolk Island.
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 21, 10 June 1867, Page 134
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165AUCKLAND SHIPPING. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 21, 10 June 1867, Page 134
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