STORM IN WELLINGTON
SHIPPING DISLOCATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Tuesday night's storm did not doany serious damage in the city or suburbs. At an early hour yesterdhy morning the flat part of Island Bay was still covered with water, which invaded several of the houses, but the floods are subsiding. There were numerous washouts on the high levels of the city, and fences were blown downin all directions. Shipping has been dislocated, and none of the small steamers "have been able to leave port. The Maori and Arapawa from Lyttclton, and the Pjteena from Pioton and Nelson arrived after very rough trips._ The Tahiti from Ran Francisco is in tho neighbourhood of Cape Palliser, but is: unable to make hor entrance to Wellington harbour owing to tho thick weather.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10671, 18 July 1912, Page 4
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131STORM IN WELLINGTON Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10671, 18 July 1912, Page 4
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