BAD WEATHER AND FLOODS UP NORTH.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1039, 22 June 1894, Page 6

BAD WEATHER AND FLOODS UP NORTH.

Accounts from various of the North Island state ihat heavy rain set in on Sunday, with a {rale during the night, and continued during Monday, causing much destruction of propert}?.

At New Plymouth it was the heaviest gale ever experienced there. The new roof on a house was blown off, the High School chimneys were snapped of at the roof, and the National Bank bad its roof 30 damaged that men had to go to repair it. Fences are down in all directions, including one at the railway station. The totalisator house on the racecourse and the stables at Weetman's house have been blown down. The churth at Ornata is a wreck. The velocity of the gale averaged 36"2 miles per hour, and during 24 hours 'he gale had travelled 870 miles. Mr Neale, at the Government Observatory there, says that the wind blew at times with hurricane force.

At Napier the rivera were in high flood, j»nd a heavy sea in the bay. The township of Clive was under water, and the residents all left their houses. All around the shepherds were mustering the sheep and taking, them to higher ground. At Hastings there was much tnore water than at the December floods. Meanee wa3 also much deeper under waier until an embankment burst. No loss of life is reported. But many small settlers will be ruined, as they had just got fresh crops into the ground after their losses in December, and all has been swapt away. At -Wairoa the flood is the highest ever known, and heavy losses of stock are reported. A man named Denis Lynch was found drowned in a creek at Ouga Onga.

At Nelson a good deal of damage was done, houses and trees being blown down.

Captain Edwin states that the severe southerly gales which have been pr<3Vale))t all over the North Island since Saturday evening have been caused by there being a cyclone centre to the westward of the Three Kings about noon on that day, and travelling to the southeast meeting an area of hitrh pressure or anti-cyclone which was to the westward of the South Island afc the same time and advancing to the south. Both systems have so acted on each other as to cause a change of route, which has taken the cyclone -centre more towards the east, and the anti-cy-clone more to the southward than usual. The lowest pressure of the cyclone which was from 80 to 100 miles north of tho North Cape at noon is 29in, and the highest pressure of the anti-cycloue, which was S. S.E. of Stewrrt Island, is estimated at 3040 m.