WILD WEATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 296, 18 May 1914, Page 5

WILD WEATHER.

~f SOUTHERLY BLOW AT WELLINGTON ' 1 $ By Telegraph- ri > 11on. , 'f Wellington, Last Night. 'JI The weather for the week-end kit been unusually wintry. A fierce south- '« crly, with bitterly cold ruin squalls, / swept up from Cook Strait all Saturday ' and during the night, while to-day has been fyll of driving showers, though the sun struggled through the clouds occasionally. Steamers arriving to-day report fearfully rough seas in the Strait. BLUSTERING GALE AT NEW PLYMOUTH. .. \ ; MINOR DAMAGE REPORTED. £■ ■ J Last week-end was windy, but tho gale which sprang up on Saturday after- '' - noon made its predecessor pale into in- ' w significance. On Saturday afternoon it * brought a cold stinging rain, but in ■ * the evening it shifted to the boisterous south, whence it blow through the night and #ll (lay yesterday. r. In suburbia, hedges were blown aliout and branches strewed the streets, aad ■■■< a few fences were blown down, but no serious damage was done. In town, « a butcher's window was blown in,' an 1 vas a glass door in the Egmont Boob Factory (afterwards boarded up by the united efforts of two policemen). A 'i hoarding on the corner'of St. Aubya . and Queen streets, and tho "Places to Visit" board opposite the Grosvenor Hotel were blown down, and sundry pieces of roofing iron rambled in from 'f nowhere in particular. *V" On the coast the sea tore passion io tatters and scattered the foamy remnants on the shore. A steamer which •* left for Wellington on Saturday, put back to the harbor for shelter. The wind carried a bite from the • mountain, which was heavily covered with snow. Only, one party (Mr. W. G. Douglas and three others) ventured 1 ;" up Egmont, and they reported snow two feet deep, for two miles down the slope. Cars couUl not make their way past the two-mile peg, owing to the heavy roads and snow.