DESTRUCTIVE STORM AT THE THAMES.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 78, 29 June 1868, Page 155

DESTRUCTIVE STORM AT THE THAMES.

The Thames Advertiser, June 13, says On Thursday evening one of the severest storms we have experienced passed over the'.district* and was' attended with considerable damage and great inconvenience to a number of the community who were exposed %to its full force. The gale commenced early in the evenings the day having been showery throughout,, aiid increased in violence -until after 'midnight; when it grad ually' lapsed. KThe windwas nearly north-east, and passed over; in gusts'; tearing <down', numberless tents in which the miners and * their families were preparing to rest for the night. To attempt re-erection in the face of such;weather—for the wind was accompanied'by frequent heavy <squalls of rain—was out of the question; and sb; the unfortunate occupants had liad to take refuge with their neighbours who were -fortunate enough to a weather-board building, or whose tent was so; admirably fixed asto': withstand the violence of the wind. ' In some instances teuts were-sent rocket-libe into the air, and in others "razed instantaneously to tlie ground, to the surprise of the occupants. 5 At Waiotahia a large weather-board building,dnicuurso of-erection for Mr Ledvard, way literally blown to piecesby the force of the wind.;- The building, which was 46 feet long, had been completed, with- the exception -of shingling:. On the Karaka a 'dwelling-house was lifted' off the' blocks, and deposited a short distance r away. At iShortlandyortions of galvanised iron roofing and loose timbers-were flying about in all : directions, rendering ihe-streets dangerous r to i' pedbstriaiisL' x -Streets h we ; have said, but they- wereffmerb'streams of'mud,' and, wefear, will con tinue so for some time to cbi ixSJ: Unforturiately/the ItSiprojement pcimhitte€»'. ; have; -ether; t work' ’tofriperfoi-m, ! and'db'clihe^to' idevbte ‘tlieir attention; to'-'so' praotib&l4 mendingjour 1 ways. l r •i-si* u; »,„* *'•>' W-: 1