THE FIJI HURRICANE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 82, 14 April 1913, Page 7

THE FIJI HURRICANE.

News received by mail from Fiji supplies additional particulars of the hurricane which recently visited the group.

The, damage in Suva was nor so severe as it might have been, only the more isolated buildings having suffered.

The Fiji Times says;—“The worst damage in Suva has been done .to the Suva Soap Works, which are utterly ruined and scattered, portions of .the building having been carried clean over the top of the Customs offices, carrying away the telephone wires as they flew. Mr John Cleary lost the entire roof from his residence in Stewart Street. The Melbourne Hotel was badly flooded, and lost half its verandah. Tire Solomon town, near Mr L. S. Lazarus’ house has been completely wrecked, , and Mr Lou Lazarus is ..fptertainiug most of the women and children, who have fled shivering and wet from their ruined town.

“The Rev. W. E. Bennett, who had come across from Ban, said that the Fijian houses on the Davuilevu Mission Station, had .been much damaged, and a serious loss was sustained by the damage done to the students’ gardens. There were about 500 students in the college, and the reverend gentleman estimated that in about a fortnight they would have to he fed on rice owing to the destruction of the gardens. The btjen blown off some of the outhouses of the Indian Mission, otherwise-that ipstitution flrhas escaped.■fhe.rhigh school, industrial workshops, and, churches were intact. ~. His yeadipg of..the barometer at 3 a.m. was 28.82. Ihe damage at f.B.au was not .Stn iouSj one or two bouses only having suffered.