TERRIFIC STORM OF WIND AND RAIN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 315, 13 October 1875, Page 2

TERRIFIC STORM OF WIND AND RAIN.

On Saturday last, this district was visited with a most terrific southerly gale of wind accompanied with deluging rain. The. storm set in about half-past ton o’clock in the morning, and raged with unabated fury till about midnight, when it slightly moderated. From midnight till about six o’clock on-Sunday morning, it 4 also blew- strongly; and- the- gale did not altogether'-subside tilt between ten and eleven on the forenoon of that day. At one period of the day, (Saturday) namely between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. the gale increased to A perfect hurricane; and fears were entertained as to the safety of some of the less substantial buildings itrtown. In several of the stores whose frontages were more or less exposed to the violence of the gale, goods had to be hurriedly 1 to the back apartments to protect them, from the rain, which, was being driven with ! such impetuosity by 1 the wind, as to. huvf: forced itselfr through every possible crevice, and to have to some extent, inundated the buildings. Notwithstanding the promptitude with which the goods were removed, they did not altogether escape damage; : iwhieh damage, however, is fortunately so tritiing as; to be> scarcely wtath while: noticing. The Wesleyan Church—now in course of erection—was Beverly shaken i but we are glad to learn that the building has not sustained any material injury. The paperhangings in three or four of the; rooms in Captain Porter’s new house were considerably damaged by leakage, as were also the paperhangings in one or two other new houses in town. An unoccupied hut at the Maori pa, was blown down, and two or three otter huts in the same ; pa werq partially unroofed. At Mr. Hepburn’s brick-making establishment much damage was done—no less than ten thousand, bricks, ready for the kiln; being totally destroyed. Considerable damage was also done to a large quantity of tiles at the same establishment j-and Mr. Hepburn’s Joss, altogether, cannot be estimated at less than £5O, if not more. Trees have been torn up by the roots imall parts of the district, and hundreds of roods of fencing, and one or two chimneys, have been blown down. ' >

At Tologo Bay the storm does not appear to have been so violent as it was at Gisborne, but nevertheless, some damage wa's done there. A whale boat —the of Mr. Mullooly-r-was blown a considerable distance and smashed to pieces. It is probable that we may have to chronicle further- casualties in Saturday's issue. - • • •’ ' ■