GALE IN SYDNEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10045, 20 July 1910, Page 5

GALE IN SYDNEY.

TREMENDOUS DAMAGE.

A WOMAN MIbSING.

i ijniteu Press Association —By Eleotrio Telegraph Copyright •Received July 19, 4 10 p.m. SYDNEY, July 19. The abatement of the storm was only temporary. At ten o'clock today the rain again poured in the city streets in sheets. The water in the low-lying suburb* partly submerged the residents, who are moving. The telephone telegraph wires are down, and 'Sydney is almost isolated. Details of the damage is slowly coming hand. At Coogee the j Jadics' bath was partially washed away, and Mrs Baasett, keeper, who was on the premises, is missing. At Kenaingtm a pony in a paddock was blown over and almost buried in the sand, and had to be dug out. | At Bondi two. ;.]adie« were blown\ o?er and rolled along the beach. One •regained her feet, but her skirts were torn off. Both .lay iflat and waited for assistant, which was rendered with great difficulty. The Paddington Town Hall, a jl-irge substantial building, was parth unroofed, and .a 'Children's dance was broken up. At Mosman a cab watj blown over, and <the driver's arm fractured.

in North Rvdney, Neutral Bay. aid the high suburbs, which are f.Jly exposed, everything movable changed its location. Trees forty feet hijjfi were uprooted, ami carried several vards. roi- of a house was hurJed asainst » butcher's establishment, completely wrecking the brick fhurcn of England, recently completed. One of the miin walla was blown i n , and the roof lifted from the Willoughby Congregational Church, which shifted off the piles, an J was badly smashed It wag still raining heavily at soon.