DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE,
SUVA SUFFERS SEVERELY". (By Telegraph—Press Association), Auckmxd, Friday. The Ohau from Fiji brings news of a destructive hurricane on January 7th and Bth. Of the fivo, churches of which Suva boasted, tH Presbyterian, Wesleyan, Native, aw Polynesian Church of England, collapsed entirely. The European Church of England, was partly unroofed, and the Roman Catholic ■structure came off with a little damage.
_ Tho Government experienced considerable loss in the destruction of the Custom House and Bonded Store—a two storied building—boing totally wrecked. Of the smallor stores, many were entirely destroyed. The stores and warehouses of tho larger merchants came off best, and their losses are comparatively light in comparison to their risks.
Many houses bad their roofs, verandahs and fences blown away, Patients and attendants at tho Hospital had a bad time, it being deemed advisable to remove tho former to a smaller, but stronger structure at Levuka.
The barque Ophir was wrecked on a, reef with 100 tons of copra. The barque Dione, from Africa, bad her masts cut away, which saved her from foundering. The Taviuni hadd a narrow escape of being driven onP the reef.
A Natives village atUbutha Bay, was blown to pieces, and a village at Mairaki was levelled to the ground, except tho Roman Catholic Church. The cutters Shark and Eleanor, and the schooner founded off Tavinui, and it is believed all the crews lost.
The Holmhurst sugar estate estimates its loss at £1,500. The cocoanut plantations ou the Island are mined.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4930, 19 January 1895, Page 2
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249DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE, Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4930, 19 January 1895, Page 2
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