WAIROA.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 195, 12 August 1874, Page 2

WAIROA.

(brom our own CORRESPONDENT.) We experienced a very smart shock of an earthquake on the morning of the 3rd August (Monday). Time, 4.35 a.iu. Direction of the shake, from west to east. Very little damage was done, but it frightened many people out of their beds and into the open, for it positively seemed as if some of the houses must fall, so marked was the rocking. Such a severe shake has not been felt for a long long time. Several small shocks were felt the same day. The weather is still sadly changeable, more rain than fine days, the ground being sadly saturated. The natives about here are preparing the land for the - early crops, but if this weather lasts much longer I am afraid that the early crop, if put in at all, will rot. There is a great scarcity here of potatoes and pumpkins, &c. A shipment would pay well. The approaches to the ferry are about completed, and there is some talk of a little money being expended in improving the coast road to Mahia, a much needed piece of work indeed. A new store (Messrs. C. Anderson and Co., is being rapidly erected at the end of the Kapil road, opposite the Riverside Hotel, where there is quite a small township springing up; Something is at last being done towards getting the cemetery looked after ; what the something is, I hardly know at present, but anything will be better than the do-nothing system that has been so strictly adhered to lately in regard to that institution.

You will have had full particulars ’ere this of the wreck of the “ Hero.” Very meagre details have as yet come to hand here, everyone is sorry for the sad fate of the staunch little vessel for such a time a great favorite with all of us.