THE WEATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 194, 6 August 1908, Page 2

THE WEATHER.

XTlim JN NEW SOUTH WALES.

„ , ~ , Syanoy, August 5. Vessels which are arriving-in , )o rt LT r l lmvill C ad ", rou « h ti, " e in W* v,i„ g eS \. Man y i bo »t» »i'c still shclWring on the coast. iX TuiTxoitTJl. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last \i-hl. the weather on the coast was very bad on Tuesday night, blowing a hard sonh-east gale, wilh a heavy" sea ami thick ramy weather. The Government | steamer iutanekai from Xapier had a hard tunc in the Bay of Plenty, ami was hove-to for about eight hours. T'le barque Daniel, which left Auckland for Svduey on Monday, p„t back to port this .morning, owing to severe weather conditions.

THE AMOKITiA JiUXXJXti IJKFOH)' Til].] WIND.

„,, ~. . Last Sight. Hie .Minister of .Marine received ; telegram to-day from the chief li.rl.thousekeeper at East Cape stating That lie training-ship Amokura, en rouw Iroin Wellington to Auckland, pass*! I'orth at 4.30 p.m. to-day. The vessel had a fair wind, fresh from the south and was doing well.

Captain Edwin's cyclonic dis'u i ianci . limy be said to have arrived. Yesterday it blew "great guns." it was a •mountain wind" of more than ordinary violence. "It plucked at the tails of the grave matronly cows, and tossed the colts' manes over their brows." it threw itsef with force against funces and the fences bowed down before it—and forgot to get up again. It whistled through the telegraph wires, and atones and pebbles came hurtling tlucti-'h. the air, to the extreme discomfort °of pedestrians. It lore furiously down the gullies, and the tall trees bent liku supple-jacks. Some bent to our it in" point. In the wooded places, such as the Kecreation Grounds, the air was filled with flying twigs and limbs and branohos and fir cones. Th'.' usually placid surface of the lake in the Hecreation Grounds was hardly recognisable with its white-crested waves and sheets of flying foam. In the town one of the electric arc lights, suspended at the junction of Eliot and Devon streets, came crashing down. Little shrubberies suffered. The sea was a fine sight. In fact, the wind was a l . together out of the ordinary. The gale at its height yesterday was making work for the glaziers. Several windows were broken, including one of the largo plate-glass panes in Messrs. E. Griffiths and Co.'s King street frontage.