ISLAND HURRICANE.
ELLICE ISLES SWEPT.
MUCH DAMAGE DONE. (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.) Received 10.24 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A hurricane passed over the Ellice group in the middle of April. The island of Xukualaelae was devastated; SUOO cocoanut trees were levelled, and the natives' houses were nearly all demolished. [The Ellice Group extends south-east by south and north-west by north for a distance of 360 miles, in a line between the Fiji and Gilbert Islands, and confists of nine clusters of islands, of which the Nukulaelae or Mitchel group is one. All the islands are low and flat, the ?ocoa-nut trees being 60ft to SOft above the water. Nukulaelae consists of eleven or twelve islets, situated on a coral reef, which surrounds a shoal lagoon, extending five miles to the north and south and two miles to the east and west.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 150, 25 June 1907, Page 5
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141ISLAND HURRICANE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 150, 25 June 1907, Page 5
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