THE STORM OF SATURDAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4114, 16 May 1892, Page 2

THE STORM OF SATURDAY.

Much Damage Done, Buildings Razed to the Ground,

A more violent storm than that experienced on Saturday has not passed over the Masterton district for a considerable time, • On Friday night the wind sprang up from., the south, increasing in violence hour, by hour, until on Saturday morning a '. regular hurrioane' prevailed, which i coutinued with slight abatement throughout the day. The rain i descended in torrents, the air "bit shrewdly," and the wind howled in ■ its terrible rage. The result was that the gutters were flooded and to cross Ihe streets was a matter of the greatest difficulty. The town- was [ deserted throughout the "day, and several business people closed their doors and betook themselves to their fireside. About ten o'clock on , Saturday evening the wind dropped i and although the heavy rain con» ' tinued to fall the worst of the storm was over. In all parts of the town the storm | has proved more or less disastrous. Orchards, buildings, and ornamental trees have alike suffered. In one street traffic has been impeded by a 1 tree which has fallen across it, another is strewn wiih maorooarpa, whilst in a third may be seen theremains of afencewhioh was torn from 1 the ground and scattered in all direc-, j tions. Un the Upper Plain a small . tenement was blown over, and on the , Akura the iron roof of a Maori house ; was lifted dean offand carried several i hundred yards into an adjoining field. > It is extremely fortunate that no 1 more serious damage has resulted, for J the storm wasfier ce and proloned. ; FOOTBALL 1 [By Diogenes.] . , Owing to the severe weather which i prevailed ou Saturday, all football i matches in the district were post- ' poned, - It is about time some arrange ments were made for commencing I the Cup contests, A difficulty ap> 1 pears to have arisen over lasts year's J arrangements, the books of the ( Union being in the hands of the , Secretary, who haß left the district. , The Masterton Park Trustees will i do well to resoind the resolution [ passed at a recent meeting requiring 1 the Bed Star Football Club I to pay £lO for "the vise , of thp Oval for a season. The !}tar Club js not in a position to I pay the sura demanded, and it would > be muob better for the Trust to take i half a loaf thp no loaf at all, The ;. football matches afford ' the public, and the admission to'the 1 Park is as a rule free. It cannot ) therefore be expected that the. Club will contribute more than a nomiual [ Ggure for the right to play on a I public ground; -r- ''■■'■•■■■■■ ■■•.';• ! The Athletic' News (England) , reports that a ■ 'father • peculiar con's undrum was put to the Kugby Union 1 Coni'mittee for sblntioh recently,; -It 1 was as follows! Supposing a player , back, for instance—kicks "tUe ball , up the field and'proceeds to run'on for thepurposedplacing his men on side, in'thus placing'his men (in Bide ' pan'he run in touch, o,' must he keep , ieiigibusly to the'field nfp'iay? The Union have decided ,thlt under, the ; circumstances,, it U 'lacvfnl, for ft ■ player to rue in touch if he cares, to do so, ''

The Ch&nipioiiahip MaUli between the Melrose And: Athletic Clubs was i plityed in Wellington on Saturday 1 under oiroumstances anything but « favourable. The result was a draw, ( both sides scoring«goal, i