STORMY WEATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 52, 19 July 1912, Page 5

STORMY WEATHER.

SHIPPING IN THE SOUTH. DAMAGE AT LYTTELTON. By Ttlegrmph—Press Association. Christckurch, Last Night. The exceptional severity of the southeast gale on the coast is clearly shown by the fact that for the firt time in her four and a half year's career in the Wel-lington-Lyttelton ferry service the steamer Maori was unable to ge.t out of Wellington heads on her sailing night. Ihere was a tremendous sea running in Cook Strait and across the entrance to Wellington harbor, and the weather was exceptionally thick and dirty. Captain Aldwell, therefore, very prudently decided to anchor inside the heads lor the night, and lie put to sea at four o clock this morning. The weather was stilly very bad in the straits, but after getting past Cape Campbell the Maori made good time down the coast, and was signalled at 2 p.m., arriving at the wharf an hour later.

| Advice was received this morning that the Union Company's collier Waipori which left Westport for Lyttelton on Monday night, is sheltering behind Long Island m Cook Strait. Regarding the damage caused to the i Lyttelton reclamation works by the Teeent storm, the secretary of the Harbor Hoard states that the repair work would extend over a month. The cost of replacing those parts of the wall which had been broken off would be about £450. ! THE MASTERTON FLOODS. . Masterton, Thursday. The storm still continues, and thou°h the Hood water _ has receded a large aiea of land is inundated, and one or two small bridges have been washed away by the streams. Many slips have occurred on the roads, and' a very big one at Kopuaranga, which will 'block traffic on the road for some days, was leported to-day. Settlers have lost stock in the low-lying country through drowning. The train service has been re-established. The weather is very cold and the mortality among weak constitutional stock is expected to be heavy. The latest reports state that serious slips occurred on the roads towards the east coast, and that much stock has been drowned. SHIPPING IN WELLINGTON. Wellington, Thursday, Ihe San Francisco steamer Tahiti, which has been hanging off Cape Palliser since yesterday morning as a consequence of the rough dirty weather, arrived in port at seven o'clock this morn-