HEAVY GALE AND HIGH THE AT ONEHUNGA. Auckland, March 28.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 251, 31 March 1888, Page 3

HEAVY GALE AND HIGH THE AT ONEHUNGA. Auckland, March 28.

An unusually high tide, accompanied h\ a he.n\\ south-we-ieily wind, w<^ e\pen enced in Onehun^a >e-(eida> foicnoon, causing eoiwdctable damage to tli'- ()m hun^i savunilK Tin lieaeh R<>ui, iui a distance ot about thiee bundled >aid^, u.l-1 eo\eied by about lifteen lining ot waUi. This road, which 1^ piotei led with a bio.iM wot k ot nwoniyof about four oi li\c ket in depth, and extending itoni I'iiihc.street to Chnn.Oi - li.i^ bicn roudcicd inijia^-'-ablo for »ehic"l.n tralhr •^tonu- of from one to tin en liun-drcd-wei^rhb beinu wa-li'd iioin tln^ biea«t\\oik and thiow n completely acio-^ the road, lea\m^ wlueli nwioa-ed in si/c by t ho ■\iulenee ot Lite -~ra \\ai*hinn o\or Iho road. A yacht- owned by Mi Donald Sutherland, ami a cuttn, the [>iopeily of jNlr Chaile-> Constance, wei c wa^lud from their mooungs and throv\n up on to the centre of the road, where they a>eno>\ l)in^ almost total wieckx. The wh.uf and fiiinic? (connected wth the .Saw AJ ill) upon which; a eon^ideiable quantity oT n timber was stacked we o bioken away, .scattering the timber in all diieetions. The Mangere bridtru is also severely strained, H3\eral of the stays ha\ing been displaced. The tide was higher than lia^ omm 1 been witnessed by any ot the oldest 1 evident s m Onehun^a. The tide last ni^ht icapi)eared with iencwed vigour, increasing the damage done in the foienoon, the stage upon which the logs are <'iawn up from the sea bein^ 1 completely washed away, and the tloatiug logs at Uie back of the mill crushing in the cistei nhonso, which supplies the boiler with water. The sheds and woi kshops wOl c nKo smashed, and when the walls fell tho loot's in some instance^ were blown completely off, and where the flooring was 24 houiv, ago is now strewn with immense lolts six, eight, I and ten feet in diameter. Mr Clark, the manager, lias not yet been able to make an estimate of the damages, but it will "o.st a considerable outlay before the null can resume ordinary work. The Mangeio Bridge hat, sudeied to such an extent that ib is to be closed to-day .against fintlier traffic, it being deemed quite unsafe.

Tl;c Mary Powell, a lluil-un Ri\er pa.sacngcr line boat, ou Juno 10. 1885, made twenty-seven miles in sovonby-.seven minutes. This is said to bo the fastest time ever made by a river steamer.