THE STANDARD. SATURDAY JANUARY 11, 1873.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 17, 11 January 1873, Page 2

THE STANDARD.

SATURDAY JANUARY 11, 1873.

“ We no ,nan i UB, * CO or r ‘^ lt: We shaTLflWyto 110 man justice or right : We shall < Icfer to no man justice or right.”

The somewhat lengthened spell of fine •weather which brought us: Well into the new year has disagreeably broken during the W Wdek by a severity of elemental disturbance seldom experienced on this Coast, and from which we have had a long immunity. On Saturday last the wind sprang up from the S. E. with rain which continued with gusty intervals up to Monday. It was with the freshening of the gale on Sunday that the Dawn came in after cracking on all sail to hit the top tide. The Cynthia, which arrived two hours before, luffed up under Young Kick’s, Head, evidently mistaking the anchorage. Here she rode out the gain until Tuesday at noon when, after a few. hours’ sultry calnal the glass suddenly fell; knfl-a black Norh Easter sprang up, rendering it necessary for her to thrash through it and seek shelter as near the river mouth as possible, Uk smooth Mater. For 24 hours, the storm-raged furiously, the force of the wind at times amounting to a hurricane. The * rain descending heavily the whole time, soon flooded the rivers bringing down plenty of drift wood, which gave good sport to, those on the look-out. A deposit of 3ft. has been =made on the Western bank of the river; a .pretty good length of o f the landing jetty <m the town side has been carried bodily away, and a little damage done to the new wharf road, which, however, can easily be repaired. Considering the extreme

violence of the finest, the wonder is that mor® matefiil damage baa not been donsMo property • as beyond a a few ce»’ being blown down, its desolatfchg effect* are not apparent. Old ficttlera here sav it i» many years since such IrßqgfrviHited this district; and the “ Old lalta/who were kept up at anchor watch flic whole night, say that the glass at one time stop® as low Fab 28'70. On Weather 1 broke,, ambit is npw Mjttlflßßir We shall be glad to he® that all » right at Hawke’* Bay, With the Chile the Eobert Henderson half-full erf wool and other craft that happened to be outside, as the roamteaCFttiere is -Worse off for shelter than our own, and it is in ..similar storms that some of the finest ships have been lost there.