Great Storm at Fiji.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1623, 1 February 1886, Page 2

Great Storm at Fiji.

f UNITED ASSOCIATION.), . .. ,:. ; Auckland. Friday. From Fiji there is' news', of a storm, which passed over the group on the 4th,: Suva 5 and Levuka escaped almost scot free, but the western part of .Vita Levu and the island'of Kandavau wore not so 'fortunate. These felt the f ull f orise of the gale, andat Nadrdga ; ;a Native 'witter, which-putto sea to escape ..going on' shore; foundered, -and four men were drowned; 'the captain alone escaping, after being 30 hours m the ,:water. The village of Mamnka, containing »1 Native houses, was?;le veiled; a number of houses., of tte Native -i 'were blown doAvn'ai Kan--<davaU',.<-.aW considerable damage .was, done to | the Native 'plantations. The loßßfofrsdver.il of the small "craft owned oyFijians is also reported!' Qn thejnighif of the 5th 1 instant th'egale sweplibveV Tonga* About 5.) a.m. the, schooner Saucy, Lass,. ot* Fiji, parted 'frphV'hei:' 'three anchors, and came on shore, ;rs also did'tHe'Cath'trine, a vessel belonging to a Tongan chief. ! Es4he tide rose theyj'&ame ihVWell«over' the reef j About 6 a.m. the three-masted /schooner Agne? ; Edgill' parted her chains and came on stern first, and m less than an honr 'she foundered; in about three and arid a-haif fathoms of water, arid now lie's a complete 'wreck! : The captain and some ;of ;the r crew had a very narrow-es-cape. Very little- damage' was done on shore,:; scarcely fa house was blown down, and-oniy*. few. banana trees. . H Thestprni, was the isame .which ,yisi ted , Fiji. ..Ijt is also reported from* Tonga that two more submarine Volcanoes have 'broken out tb' the north of Nukualofa'; but'no'particu^ lars.are jto hand. A deposit of pumice 'several feet* deep ; was; left ashore here; from the' last outbreak. The Saucy Lass hug since been floated J almost uninjured.^