A Sandstorm in Buenos Ayres.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1644, 25 February 1886, Page 2

A Sandstorm m Buenos Ayres.

. ♦ ■', „ „ *** In the direction of tlie setting gun an immense curtain: of brassy color, which reffectecTsinister shadows, was rapidly taking, form . -It seemed to spring'trolm* I the; earth, -as if to veil the sun v It shaded the vast extent, until the" pdmpa ayxd the sky had-the same frightful livid tint, the same solidified-apne&rajnce, as if over head and under foot the compressed air was being forced through two parallel walls of sand ; and, m truth, it was that winch was being accomplished — the pampero, the tempe&i: of dustp.thW/ rain' ofi sand, which,- at times ' for^ -weeksf r drives -back the tide of the Rio de la Plata, and sweeps the, largest \ vessels back to the v ocean, orj catching -them ia its fury, lifts them from their anchorage and lands them m the streets of Buenog Ayres, far above the liquid element to which they belong. . Words are impotent to describe the horror of this solid atmos- '' phere, which disolaces the traasparericy ' of the tropicalskyr~the fury of this wind;, of the desert, which uplilts its ,wide 7*"; spread covering of dust and sand, sas, '> whirling them seaward, bursts upon ' Buenos Ayres and the neighboring villages. J\Vhen it haspassed it takes days, sometimes? w^eeksbc «onttis, r l;6 e'f&c|Ti|BT ravagVs. '- When acbompa^nied - Byi'ainltis|preads general ruin. Water and dust then mix, and falhto earth m thick muddy streams, as m ttio'sS great cataclysms of prehistoric times which geology demonstrated. ~

' : *' ''' :r " ~ ' "" ■. .- ::• : •■:■!' We (Auckland Star) believe the Go-r vertiment have resolved to submit next/ session a tax on baulk timber exported - from the colony. This step is recora--ibended m the interests of local labour it being believed that the; demand for kauri, m Australia will not be interf erred with; while the tax will compel^'thcT^ sawing of the timber m the colony. "Bld'he pop the question last riighF? 4 ! eagerly asked the mother as- thV. daughter came down late to breakfast. •f No, not quite." " What did he say ?» '? Why he squeezed my hand" twice and said that he believed I'd niako some man 4d excellent wife if the fellow had sense enough to take me bo jfar'awajphat you . couldn't visit the more, than m twenty years;*' ■ ■ The-next English and European Mail yia San ; -Francisco, will close , at\ tfie Palraerston Post Office on .Friday, the 26th of February, at 7.45 p.m.- * : A living .m / Rappahknrioek County. Va., had twelve stands of bees which were very valuable until ; k 1 J di*& tillery was started; The bees* ! now, pav-frequen.t visits to the^still, get very drunkj and' are : of Ijttle profit. # \/y The Waihora is now alongsid? the Mejbourne wharf discharging cargo, which' turns out m generally fair ; pjder^ but a little being damaged. The vessel* will be docked, when the extent of th« damagershe, has sustained ; will be aecer-^ tamed. The horses which were r bh^ board arrived safely, '■' ' '" ' A man was locked up for drunkenness in^yeUington a few days agio under extraordinary circumstances. He go6> jntothe tram' at Paremkta while it wa«a m motion, and on the journey, to town went'tb Blep, and, allefforts to^ awakenA. him at the WeUington terminus being useless, he was given into custody, on a charge «f drunkenness. Those wKo*" saw him get m at Paromata state) siHaV the man, who has the appearance of a bushmati, was "ptfrfeotly- 7 fibbed Stben, and. the^supposjfion is that he must, have been drinking some b ! ad : liquo^^s^ yiously, and the e Sects only developed themselves after he had got Tnto the train. He wjlj al§p, be. charged wljh getting'into the traih while m mo'ti jn, and probably with travelling on it without a tickjet A Cbristchurch telegram received yesterday after we had gone to- preks was ka follows i:-?At iabout 11.30 'today, John Tuylor, plumber, of ; t% firm of Taylor & Oakley, got into a dispqte with his next door neighbour, John^ Midgely,' about a fence which the |atterfwJFshbd to erect between their premises, and which Taylor objected to as unsightly. From high words they came to blows, and were separatad-by Qakley; Tayjorls/partner. They closed agkhi, antf -Miagjev fell, striking his head against tbe Mrpqden^ kerbing of the footpath. IJe wis taken *" into his bouse. Dr Patrick came, but the man died almost' immediately. 'W ! does uot appear that he wag knocked down.' ' Taylor gave himself vp l W tbi police immediately^: It doeß not appear that he was previously, at enmity witlMidgeley. " ' ■' "'• \ i '* m -