THE WEATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 23 July 1907, Page 2

THE WEATHER.

GALE AT TH AROHA. ] Per Press Association. Te Aroha, July 22. A gale was raging here on Saturday night and Sunday. Fences and sheds are down everywhere. A young man named George' Hickey was sleeping in a cottage on the rise which was blown away and smashed to pieces. The nian was badly bruised, but no bones were broken. Messrs. Johnson mid: Guilliam's shed containing six buggies was destroyed. All tiie vehicles were damaged. 'i'lie river is high and railway communication interrupted. At Paeroa a wash-out occurred, about £SOO worth of damage being done.

bcsh fire at seddonville. " o Per Press Association. ' AVeStport, July 22. 1 A bush fire raged at Seddonville on Saturday. The Masonic Ilall caught 1 fire, lmt it was extinguished. DAMAGE AT AVESTPORT. Pel Press Association. | AVcstport, July 22. A heavy gule on Saturday occasioned damage throughout the district. The Trotting Club's grandstand is unroofed. DAMAGE IN" AUCKLAND HARBOR. NEW FERKO-CONCRETE WHARF SERIOUSLY AFFECTED. Per Press Association. Auckland, July 22. The Collector of Customs has been no- ' tilled by the master of the s.s. Kawau that i.h'i beacon on Maori Hock, in the north channel at Kawau has been dislodged. The gate on Sunday caused extensive damage to portions of the new ferroconcrete railway wharf. The part affected most is the training wall, the sheathed piles of which extend the whole length of the wharf, for the purpose of turning the tide and making still water inside. About a dozen bays in the middle of the ' wall have lieon torn out almost com- ' pletely, a few isolated piles being visible hero and there, with the jagged ends of 1 <the steel reinforcement. sticking out of the top. The heavy top girder has also gone in these'bays, with the exception of i some small portions hanging to the tops . of isolated piles. The steel bars form- . ing the reinforcement were bent and stripped of concrete across the intervening space. Passing further out, towards ; the end of the wharf, the wall till stands, [ though daylight can be seen glimmering j between the pibs in several places. Comto the place where the work is now progressing, the ravages of the storm are ! more apparent.