DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE.
1000 HOUSES AND 16 CHURCHES BLOWN DOWN. Auckland, Tuesday. The brigantine Helena has arrived from Tong. and Samoa*. On March 20, the May Queen was at Rua, having taken on board a cargo of sheep. A hurricane came on suddenly, and the vessel was lost sight of, and nothing has been seen or heard of her since, although H.M.S. Sappho and the King of Tonga have used every effort to trace her. The hurricane lasted twenty-four hours, and destroyed on Tongatabou and Keppel Islands over one thousand houses and sixteen churches. It is generally believed that the May Queen is lost with all hands, Capt. Menzies, late chief officer of the Countess of Kintore was iv command, ancl the following were known to be onboard:— G.Bullock, salesman for Owen and Graham of Auckland, George Owen jun., and the mate and a crew of four Kanakas. Mrs Menzies had landed at Samoa. The ketch Pearl during the hurricane was thrown high and dry on a reef at Tonga, but was got off with only slight injury, A deputation of Samoan Chiefs has gone to Fiji to claim British protection for Samoa, where all the troubles are now at an end.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 113, 15 May 1877, Page 2
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