AUCKLAND.
This day.
The Blanche brings news from Baro» tonga of a dreadful hurricane atPaumoto. Five hundred lives were lost and many fessels wrecked. A correspondent, wrilr ing from Karotonga on March sth, says
one of the Society's vessels arrived from Tahili reports Ijhaf. one of (he Pnumoto lagoon islands, named Anau, has been completely swep 1. by a hurricane and tiiial wave. Jiorses, trees, stores and inhabitants are all gone. Mr Boosie, trading agent for Messrs Eraudors, Tahiti, escaped with a feir other?. The greater portion of the group is devastated; betweeu 400 and 500 lives hare been lost, besides several vessels. An eye witness at Papeete writes that the sea rose over the land sweeping away everything. We retreated to the highest point, about 23 feet above sea level. Fortunately the cyclone abated when the water was within two feet of us. The Tahiti Government have sent a man-o'-war. The island of £aukura suffered most, losing 117 people, and all houses and boats. Srander lost three schooners, one cutter and twelve small boats, besides the whole establishment at Auau. The cyclone continued from seventh of February to the eighth.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2840, 22 March 1878, Page 2
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191AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2840, 22 March 1878, Page 2
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