WELLINGTON.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 59, 12 May 1877, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Since before "eight this r morning a tidal wave was noticed, ; Vn'sC^jtt, fall being about four feet ; the adtio^Kmd re- , action occupying : abdut fifteen" minutes. It .is still going on -but decreasing! At the reclamation works, \ where the' wateris confined by uncompleted breastwork, the tide rushed m and out with a> force resembling the tide at the French Pass: ; f ■ •■) ':->;:/■ .> : v>: . ;"v \^ "' ■ telegrams relating to a tidal ware have been received! from the; following places. Poverty. Bay, Gisborne, Napier,. Lyttelton, Akaroa, Timaru, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, and -the Bluff. 'The phenomena was observed at all the, above places this morning after 7> and the rise arid fali ! varied from three to eight feet, which it rose at Poverty 'Bay. The ebb -and flow 6ach time is described as occupying at different timesbetween fifteen minutes and" ah hour. No damage reported anywhere. Here the rise and; fall; slackened at., midday, but increased, again m the afternoon, but ceased altogether about" seven. ""' The scores for the Cadet Championship of the colony are as follows ; ties being decided by best vScbre at longest range (300 yards) i— Cadet Mbwbray, "W"»ikuku, 72-; Lieut. Hale, WellingJon, 70; Cadet Angell, Auckland, 68 ; Cadet Currie, Waikuku, 67 ; Sergt. , Kettle, Dunedin, 67 ; Cadet. Williams,' Auckland, 64 ; Cadet Grf een ville, • Thames, 61 ; Corporal Bellinger, Wellington, 60 ;' Cadet Madely, Wellington, 60 ; Cadet Broughton, W'ahganuii 60. Nohe of the other twenty: competitors ' made those points. • '. ;- . . .'. l