STORMS IN THE PACIFIC.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 102, 1 May 1902, Page 3

STORMS IN THE PACIFIC.

PER PHESS ASSOCIATION. Heaeived 1, 1 a n>. i Syonhy, April 30. ; There is no improvement, in the' weather, nnd : he sea is the roughest for ve;>s, gi'Pftly delaying shipping. 1 M-iny vessel, including three of the Union roßst-il steuo. r.=, nr° ancho- il • in t'e "r..*>r*-onr waiting p or the wmther! ro mod 'l'-.to, A!' colli g operations -it '•lv South Oast je't'es are stopped. Th«re is a tremetidouß sea at Newcastle, and it-earners are unable to enter, and are standing off n- have returned to Sydr.ev. Tho Anrangi was twenty six h ur= behind from Brisbane, fighting ngningt a mountainous sea the whola w.jy. She lay for several hours off thn H»ads before she veritu-pd to 'nt. r, and escaped with little darnngn. The thi■ d officr was kn eked down by a sea breaking over th« vessel, and (sotnewha f sevre'y injur d. T!»- mi - L eion steamer John Will'irn, whi<". 1 > sailed for "he Islands wi'h a par-y of missionaries on the 21 -t, has re'nnv'd to Tort, a native m : ssion'-ry snff ring from measles. The starrer was considerably damaged. Dirii g' he sorm a native sailor had his arm dislocated.