A Terrible Hurricane.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3033, 20 October 1888, Page 3

A Terrible Hurricane.

Details of tho cyclone, or more properly hurricane, which occurred

> on the Islai.d of Cuba on Sept. I, Hftow an awful destruction of life mid property.Tho total damage is estimated at 10,000,000d015, and over 800 persons lost their lives. Thou- - sands of persons aro homeless and perishing from hunger. The Spanish Govgnment has distributed 20,000d1s sufferers. Tho greatest damage' caused was at Sagua and Jsaboia, where ovor 1000 dwellings wo destroyed. Hero tho sea rose six feet, and many of those who escaped death from the flying timbers wore drowned. The loss of life in Sagua alone was over 400, A passenger train inlsabela, running thirty miles an hour, was caught by the wind. Tho rails were bent as if they wero hair pins, and the train was thrown into a marsh, which completely covered it Seventy -two lives were lost in Cuidnd Aqua, and over 400 houses were destroyed. In I'ayo Brentoii the damage is enormous; the total number of lives lost is unknown, but sovraty-three bodies were rjjjpvored up to Sept. 14. In Yuelta, Abago over 8000 houses, shunties, and other small buildings were totally and their is great misery. Tho lighthouse situated on Cape Frauccß was completely demolished, and tho lighthouse keeper And two other men «ero drowned. The gun boat Lealtad, m port at Baliia Honda foundered, and nine of tho crew, including tho captain, perished. Tho Spanish warship Joroge Juruan in port at Havana also lost several men by drowning. Tho city of Cardenas is ill a fearful condition. The losses thero will reach a million. A village called Pueblo Nuevo, in tho neighbourhood of Sagua, was literally obliterated, not a vestige remains.

How to Live on £250 a YearA correspondent of tho St. James' Gazotte writes:—J liavo fallen in love with a highly .educated and well-con-«cted young lady whom I met at a public ball. Sho lias been brought up under all possiblo indulgence. The young lady, notwithstanding that 1 am a stranger to her, ardently reciproems my sontimonts, and repudiawjme consideration of inero ways and means. I have assured her that tlioso who love each other in married life can laugh at tho question of income, In this sho entirely concurs but her father takes quite a different view. Ho doos not ask his daughter to remain single, but ho demands of mo full particulars as to my means of making a suitable home, and supporting therein a wifo and family, with provisions for a possiblo widow and fatherless childron. I liavo told liim, evidently to his amaseinent, that ho takes a 100 business view of the subject, but this, I feel, will not turn him from his contention. I had all along supposed that, in his obviously tender love of his daughter, lie would mako all smooth by a settlement on her, and also give her a sum of money on her marriage. This wotjjd have enabled me to start comfortalr. I liavo made such suggestioinHim, but lie refuses it point blanfjfiaving ine to oxplain on what grounds I can justify marriage on a clerkship of £250 a year. Tho robttff has driven mo to tabulate the cost of living; and so to tost its bearings on my means, I have reckoned item by item in roferenco lo tho problem before mo, and have become astonished to disclose the total amounts to f sGo—mora by £GO than twico my salary, lat onco cut down my estimato, cruelly, as I thought, and yet tho total reached £478. By another pruning I con trived to reduce tho amount to JEB46, still another £IOO in excess of my income. At last, in shoer dospcration I balanced income against outgoings thus £ s d

Bent: House in suburban neighborhood ~, 80 0 0 Bates and taxes 10 0 0 CoaU|igas 10 0 0 Borvauyf all work ... 10 0 0 Child and nurso IS 0 0 Food for fivo persons at Is Id each 100 0 0 Laundress for ditto ... 20 0 0 Cltffifts: Ho £ls, sho £ls, child £5 85 0 0 Doctor 500 Pocket money for aimisoments, cabs, omnibusos, Ac, for two people 10 0 0 £215 0 0' Lifo insurance 0 0 0 I'iro insuranco 0 0 0 Savings for "rainy day".,, 00 0 Wines and heev ',„ 00 0 Increase of family 0 00 School expenses 0 0 0 Incomo, less tax 215 0 0 * £0 0 0

Colonial Securities. Commenting on tho advance in Colonial securities, the Europoan Maibrfs tlio observers of tlio money ffiarlffll'ii London who remember the time when C per cent. Colonial bonds stood at or under 100 have found it very hard to bring their i ancient theories into harmony with the now condition of affairs, Tlio 1 investing public appear now to bo j acting on a clearer Itnowledgo and j, apjOation of facts; all Colonial secwiues do not stand on 0110 footing. Kevenuo and oxpendituro are I carofully noted, tho amount ofin- ' debtedness per head of the population is weighed and considered, and tho • avidity with which financial critics . Beizo on any unfavorable symptom should render those responsible for tho well-being of tho Colonial finance most carofitl not only to avoid extravagance, but to place themselves like (tear's wife, abovo suspicion. While it is regarded as true that reduction of interest on British funds lias beneficially affected > Colonial securities, it may be taken as a solid fact that holders of British fuuJs are not tlio class of investors I to tato any risk. Forced to seek now iield|fo their money, tlieyliavo cor- ' that our leading , ' Colonies will always pay their engage- ! ments—no country can do more. . ■ | , When this is onco admitted thero l can be no reason why, with careful ■ management, _ all Colonial oredit : 1 mm not arrivo at & tliroo por cont 14

basis. Certain Government and Chancery Funds will always liavo to bo invested in British Govoinmont Stocks, regardless of tlio rate of interest paid, and this will always keep suoli stocks artificially higher than tlioso of tho Colonios, buttlio different betweon them is yearly growing less. It is said that the noxfc Tasmanian loan is to be floated at 81 por cent.

Express Report of the Moral Market. (By D. 0. Piuinard.) Honor.—Scarce, old stock exhausted and the now will bo a comjploto failure. Virtue—Old growth ; nearly consumed; young growth j prospectsvcry mipromising. Honesty j —Very li'tlo in tho market. PatriotI ism-First quality scaico, none to be | disposed of; second quality easily bought on speculation at 100 per cent, discount. Prudence—All in the* hands of old stockholders. Modesty—Stock badly damaged, none for sale, Vice-Market overstocked. Pride—Market glutted. PolitenessCheap. Holders umvilling to dispose of stock at present rates. Scandal—None at wholesale. Dealt in chielly by hawkers, and at retail. Religion Only a little genuine on hand; stock is generally adulteratad, Very fow investments. Love—None offered, except for greenbacks. Talent —Scarco article sold exclusively for cash. Consistency- Out of fashion. Sympathy,-Very little in circulation; can ahvuys' I bo found in the Diction-ary,-Shaker Manifesto.