WELLINGTON.
This day. Terrific Storm-
The steamer Tarawera, which arrived here at 5 o'clock this morning from Napier after a passage of 41 hours, encountered very heavy weather, and a strong S.B. gale blowing. She left Napier at 12.15 on Sunday afternoon, and on Sunday night about 10 o'clock the steerage smoking room was struck by a sea and smashed to pieces, the end of the purser's cabin was stove in and the fittings considerably damaged, the glass front of the lighthouse on the port side was driven in by the sea, all the winch steam pipes forward were torn from the decks and twisted in all shapes, and the forward skylights were stove in. One of the electric lamps and part of the woodwork round thepoop was carried away. The engines were kept s1o«f most of the passage, and the iron plates covering the steam pipes were broken into pieces. It is expected that Major Atkinson will leave for Australia on Monday next.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4630, 6 November 1883, Page 2
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164WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4630, 6 November 1883, Page 2
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