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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 102, 30 April 1881, Page 2

In the recent hurricane in Western Australia, which caused such serious damage to the pearl fisheries, Messrs Forrest, Burt, and vJo. lost upwards of a thousand sheep, many of which were blown over the sandhills. Houses and stockyards disappeared, settlers were obliged to Bit in the river day and night covered with blankets to prevent suffocation from dust. Several Europeans and natives, after clinging for a time to trees and vessels, were wvshed out to sea and drowned. The barometer fell from 30*5 to 26 in a few bourß. Some days ago we {Press) reported that a fashionable native marriage had taken place at St Stephen's, Kaiapoi. It is now stated as a fact, that something like fifty or sixty parcels of the bride's cake, duly marked, " With Mr and Mrs Tare Tehoika's compliments," weighing each from two ounces to half a pound, have been transmitted by post to different parts of the island. The packets were duly enclosed in neat parcels and tied with lavender-colored ribbon with true lovers' knots. The Post of Wednesday says:— On the Rimutaka Incline this morning a perfect hurricane was blowing when the Masterlon train passed toward town, the most furious gale experienced since the fatal accident of last September. Two Fell engineß were attached to the train, and the break winds proved thoroughly efficacious in protecting it. But for these safeguard?, however, we might have had a repetition of the former catastrophe, for at one point a gust of wind caught the trailing engine, and actually tore off the heavy iron sliding door of the cab, the rod on which it slides being smashed like a pipe-stem. Fortunately, no one was hurt, and the train reach *.d the Summit without farther mishap,