Thorndon Esplanade Damaged.
Captain Edwin's Opinion. Aid for the Distressed. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) »~-«*w%; Weluhoiok, Monday. The wall at Thorndon Esplanade originally cost £7OOO and will take between two aud throe thousand fo replaco the damaged portion, The ketch Wendona was badly damaged. Sho is insured for £250, and is a complete wreck. Tho houses off Tinakovi Koad are still submerged, the culverts having burst, A special channel will hayo to be cut before tho water can get away,
Captain Edwin says the storm was a tropical rotary hurricane from between New Caledonia and > Queensland. It struck N.Z. at Raglan, and orossed tho North Island and workod round to tho South East at Wellington. It was not felt south of Hokitika and Kaikoura, Tho fellmongers at Ngabauranga lost a good deal of wool pelts, including souTjflbrty bales of the cargo damageunyfire on the Bbip Auckland, The Mayor is inviting subscriptions for distressed families,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4366, 13 March 1893, Page 3
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153Thorndon Esplanade Damaged. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4366, 13 March 1893, Page 3
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