CAPE OP GOOD HOPE.
"We have Cape papers to the 12th July to hand by the recent arrival of her Majesty's ships Clio and Galatea. The Duke of Edinburgh had spent some time at Cape Town, apparently with much pleasure to himself. There had been great ceremonies and rejoicings over the opening of the new Alfred Docks at Cape Town, works which have just been completed at a cost of half a million sterling, and which have also to answer the purpose of a breakwater. Banquets and other festivities followed the formal inauguration of the dock, which was performed by H.E.fl. the Duke in the presence of an immense concourse of people.
There has been some terrible weather at the Cape, during which the value of the new breakwater w r as very apparent. The Argus of the 12th says:—" Some remarks made at the banquet yesterday expressed the feeling of gratification felt by the community generally at the immense benefit the shipping in Table Bay received from the breakwater and docks. It is almost certain that if we were on Saturday evening and Sunday without the protection of the breakwater, some vessels would have strewn the beach with their relics. Prom Wynberg to Sea Point the weather is reported to have been as bad as it was in Cape Town. Trees were pulled up by the fury of the storm at Wynberg, and several houses damaged. At Bondebosch, on Sunday the slate roof of Mr Stonestreet's house was taken completely off, and carried over some very high trees into a neighboring field, where it ploughed up the ground as if several shells had exploded on the spot. At Pspendorp two horses are reported to have been killed by the storm. At Sea Point the sea rose as high as it did on the 17th May, 1865, and the road between Mr Eairbridge's house and the sea was yesterday covered with marks of the inundation. In Cape Town several buildings have been severely injured. In a house in Eeform street the lightning destroyed the looking-glasses, and injured a little girl. The storm on Saturday night is said to have been
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 721, 8 October 1870, Page 3
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360CAPE OP GOOD HOPE. Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 721, 8 October 1870, Page 3
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