Storm in the North.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 15, 12 October 1907, Page 5

Storm in the North.

SHIPPING, DELAYED "MANUKAU BAR IMPASSABLE. '• Auckland, October "11'. ' ■. Stonny weather, prevails all along the Coast, and shippingis delayed at various points. The scow Zingara, bound from Gisborne to Mongonui, put into Auckland last night to shelter from tho galo. Tho barques Aldebaran and Jaimes Craigj .iwhioh left port over, a Week' • ago*, areVstilli'in tlib Hauraki Gulf; where they have been detained by the weather. All tho costifl vessels report a heavy sea and stormy weather on tho coast. _ ■ A strong westerly gale is. blowing on the west coast. Tho soa on thp Manukau Bar is exceptionally heavy, and the Onohunga shipping is tiod up in consequence. Tho Takapuna, from the south, aid not reach Onehuiiga "until 11.15- o'clook this morning, having had a boisterous tripup from New- Plymouth. : At'noon to-day .the signalman at the Heads advised that the bar was impassable, and/ the sailings of tho dif- :: rerent .vessels' . announced, .for '■ to-day [■were. accordingly postponed until tomorrow. During the galo the Harbour Board's big dredge squeezed the Ferro-Concret-e. Company's pile driver against the Railway wharf, with the result that the punt, containing a donkey ongmo, tojK pled ovor, the sheer logs restiii'g'on the*' wharf. . ... Several windows were blown, in by •tho wind. ' - - ' Wanganui t October 11. The weather in Wanganui continues very boisterous. There thunderstorm this - morning,. accompaniedby • heavy showers of hail and a gale.--Much goneral damage is boing done to gardens and yoiiiig stock, and farmers . are much concerned about the lambs. :

'RAILWAY' STATION STRUCK .BY ! ' ; LIGHTNING. , TABLET SYSTEM TJPSET AND • .. TRAINS DELAYED.. New Plymouth, October 11. An electric storm ,in the afternoon was v'resppnßiblo for considerable Haul-: age. Lightning struck and knocked; the front-put of the WaiougonW rail-' way station and shattered a number of telegraph poles; breaking-and fiis- ; ing the. wires. In consequence, the railway telegraph' system is interrupted, and trains have been held up owing to the consequent' breakdown of the tablet system. TRAIN ACCIDENT. - . _A NARROW ESCAPE. . ' 'Chrlstchuroh, October 11. v The express train : from Culverderi last evening, consisting of four cars, a .mail van, and two luggage vans) drawn by locomotive -No.' 284, had anarrow oscape from a serious accident while running down - the incline ; south !oß' Balcairn' station at considerable, ( but not more than ordinary, speed on tho sharp curve near Sefton, known as "death's cornerl" The' two- front wheels of tho bogey on the locomotivo left v tho metals at the road, crossing iin tho ociitrb .of the curve. ' Tho en-gino-driver promptly applied tho West-, s mghouse brake,''with sand on tho rails.' and pulled up the train'.before it had' travelled, moro than doiiblo its ;own length, Fortunately. tho;; other wheels of the-bogey'kept on the. metals, other-. Aviso'the train."would almost' inevitably have, gqne,;off;;the : line ,into a i deep ; depression beside . . 1 ' Auckland, October 11. Joseph Harrop, aged fifty-eight years, a ... commercial traveller for Messrs! .T. H. Hall and Co., who was run over, by a-train at EUerslie station; last hospitalj'fchis: evening.

Y.M.C.A. ' . . Auckland, Octobenr 11., The total sum raised to-day in con-, riection with the Y.M.C.A. campaign was £GSO, including an anonymous donation of £100: aild threo ■ donations of £50 each from Messrs.' Bond ana Boll,'J. \V. James, and Thomas Miller, This makes a total of £6755 oxcltlsive of £4000. estimated to bo provided in connection with disposal of the present building." ■ ; FIRE AT TE AROHA. ;y , Te Aroha, Octobor 11. ; Windsor's Bathgate boarding-holiso was .destroyed by tiro at 2 o'clock this 1 morning. Nothing Was saved, and tile inmates cscaped in their night clothes. The efforts of the lire brigado saved tllo adjoining buildings. Tho insurances arc, £500 on tho building and £200 on the furniture, in tllo Victoria Office. PRICE OF BREAD RAISED.; Dunedin, October 11. Tho'price of tho 41b. loaf of bread will be raised to. 7Jd: to-night, in conseduenco of the increase in tho price of flour. Dunedin, Octobor 10. Sales of wheat wero mado both in Timaru and Oamaru to-day at ss. on '{flick's,".or 1 at'.tho"' rate- of • £1. per bag,' being .aii advance of 3d. per bushel sinoo tho beginning of .the weak. . . . : In consoquonco of this the Now Zealand riourmillers' Association decided i'aia afternoon to raise tho price of flour by £1 per ton. The loeaJ quotation ia now £12 6s. for ton.