STORMS IN SYDNEY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10670, 17 July 1912, Page 5

STORMS IN SYDNEY

R3UGI TIME FOR SHIPPING

BREAKWATERS DAMAGED.

(Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.)

SYDNEY, July 16. There is no abatement of the storm rf rain. Exceptionally heavy seas are being experienced all along the coast. Shipping is having a rough time. Hie Manly ferry service has heen suspended. The waves swept and demolished the'surfers' drawing shod. Arriving vessels report having had unpleasant experienccc. Many, including some big liners, are standing off, being unmble to enter the Heads. Tho departure of the s.s. Wimimera has been postponed until .eleven o'clock en. Thursday morning, owing /to the rough weather. IRtports from Newcastle and Woolonong tstate that the Clarence River breakwaters were damaged by enorimcus iscas. One or two coasting vessels are overdue. Jt is supposed that they are i^lvea'cering. (Numbers of boats and motor launches) were smashed or damaged ..lit Manly. A portion of -the sea wall was destroyed, and £7O worMi of lines were destroyed in attempts to moor ferry steamers. The sea on the coast is the highest experienced .for over twenty yeans. The Bulli jetty, a large quantity of coal which was loading, machinery, and the .Solitary Island jetty, ha.ve been washed away.