THE WEATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 12 October 1907, Page 2

THE WEATHER.

Per Press Association. Mastorton, Friday. Another heavy gale was experienced in the Wairarapa last night. The weather to-day is more like mid-winter than mid-spring. All the growing crops are unusually backward, owing to the protracted Spell of unseasonable weather. The rivers are all high. Palmeraton North, Last Night. The weather has been frightful during the past few days. To-day a. gale of wind raged continuously, and made tilings very unpleasant. A considerable amount of damage was done in various parts of the town. Many hoardings were Mown down and the limbs of trees blown off. In one instance a hoarding, while falling, struck a young lady who was passing, knocking her down. She' was taken to a hotel near by and attended to. Fortunately her injuries were not severe, (ilass windows in the Clarendon and Railway Hotels were smashed by the force of the wind, and more damage of a similar nature was done.

Wanganui, Friday. | The weather at Wanganui continues very boisterous. There was a thunderstorm this morning, accompanied by heavy showers of hail and a gale. Much general damage is being done to gardens and young stock, and the farmers are much concerned about their lambs.

AUCKLAND SHIPPING TIED UP. Per Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Stormy weather prevails all along the coast, and shipping is delayed at various points. The scow Zingara, bound from Gisbome to Mangonui, put into Auckland last night to shelter from the gale. The barques Aldebaran and James Craig, which left port over a week ago, are still in the Gulf, where they have been detained by the weather. All the coastal vessels report a heavy sea and stormy weather on the coast. A strong westerly gale is blowing on the West Coast. The sea on the Manukau bar is exceptionally heavy, and the Onehunga shipping is tied up in consequence. The Takapuna, from the South, did not reach Onehunga until 11.15 o'clock this morning, having had a boisterous trip up from New Plymouth. At noon to-day the signalman at the Heads advised the bar was impassable, and the sailings of the different vessels announced for to-day were accordingly postponed until to-morrow. During the gale the Harbor Board's big dredge squeezed the Ferro-Concrete Company's pile-driver against the railway wharf, with the result that the punt, containing a donkey-engine, toppled over the sheer legs resting on the wharf. Several windows were blown in by the wind.