HEAVY STORMS IN AUSTRALIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2177, 17 March 1891, Page 1

HEAVY STORMS IN AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, March 18. There is a heavy storm and terrific easterly sea along the coast, Some anxiety is felt for the safety of several steamers, The steamer Alberta, which was recently wrecked, was completely lifted over the rocks by a great sea and disapneared, ‘ Msrch 14.

Vessels which Were missing and were thought to have come to grief during the recent gales have arrived safely in port, March 15, Heavy weather still con'inues. Terrific rain, accompanied by squalls, is repotted all over the coast. More than inches of rain fell in th# city in two hours. 4 Brisbane, March 12. The stormy weather is certain to con linue. A gale almost amounting to a cyclone is blowing between N.S/W. and Norfolk Island, and will probably extend as far as Auckland,

, A BLIZZARD IN ENGLAND. , London, March 12. The sontb-eastern counties have suffered severely from the blizzard. The snowfall waA general throughout JShgland, and remarkably heavy, In some parts the snow drifts were 20ft deep, The Flying Dutchman Was snowbound at Tiverton, in Devonshire, and many mail trains in ,various parts were completely embedded in the snow drifts, Tbe blizzard is still 1 aging.

Twenty lives have been lost, # nd various casualties are reported. Several people have been froz?n to death, March 13. Numerous additional deaths are reported by sea and laud,and the effects of the snow blizzard are being severely felt by certain classes of the popu alien. Qwiqg to the severity of the weather sll work in the mines of Rhondda Valley, Wales, has been stopped, throwing 45,000 people out of employment. Roil, way communication between London and Exeter, which w«» interrupted owing to the line being backed by suow drifta,has been restored, The severe weather which has been experiences during the past few days still, continues, and shows no signs of abating. The southern counties have suffered most from the effects of the e,torm, and the coun'ies o.f Ljepu Cornwall bare het*U isolated fer several duys. Iha snowfall W«s the heaviest known for fifty years. Railway and telegraph communication hue been interrupted In all directions, and work on tn aD y lines fc as been suspended altogether. Trains wh-ob l"ft r#i‘Mjr on Monday night, an-* which encountered the fnD * orce 0 f the storm,are still buried in the snow drifts. The passengers were rescued from 'ht carriages and taken to the adjacent viT«g»B, where they are being provided with food and shelter until the cars are ab'e to r esume their journey. Six trains are buried between Exeter and Plymouth. Near Dartmoor in Devon a train was embedded in a snowdrift for two days. Daring that time the passengers were without food, and the work of rescuing them conld ; be carried on only with great difficulty. When reached they were in a pitiable condition,

The weather off the coast is very heavy, and numerous shipping casualities are reported. i

The Liverpool barque Dryan| went ashore on Star Point, and became a total wreck, Twenty-four of those on board were drowned. The ship Calcutta was wrecked while entering Plymouth Haven, and eighteen of her officers and crew were lost. t« The pipes which supply water became choked with snow which froze bard, and 500 and navvies are now engaged in clearing them. More than one hundred disasters by land and sea hove already been recorded, and the number is increasing daily, ; The storm is raging with renewed rigour in the western counties. One hundred and sixty navvies are clearing the snow from the railway station at Plymouth. The American ship Sentia is misping, and it is supposed that she has been disabled and is drifting about the Channel,