STORMY WEATHER AT THE CHATHAMS.
Oorre'spondenU ; v > -■■-.: Chrlstohuroh, Juno 18; . Tlia'stieiimer Eipple.has just returned from a trip to the Chatlihiri Islands,, and her captain .reports that: the weathor has been very sovero .this month. t " ' ; "I', dbn't- 'think,"' 'ho • mud. "there is. a microbe left thero. . .The wind has-blown, them all to' soa.lt, has. ..been, rough—thunder, and wind together, and seas'- breaking .high. , : /We ,w<sro ,eleven: days at th6"islapttG," aßd: it blow .all tho while. One night 1' had to ; -shift tho. anchorage of the Ripple four times, and to work the port was difficult owing to,the' weathor. We took some oattlo„.abpard in .a regular, galo. We ran short .of nibat thore in tho midst of the gale,-.and We could.hot get ashoro to obtain .any more, so wo' had.to revort to fish. We a "plentiful supply. Tho, residents stated, that tho storm was thb worst 'known' at the islands for leveral-years.. Tho wind. was of terrific force; and .tho/rain was cold. Somo damage was done aniong; the-sheep, and the tempest left its .tho glands, but the harm was not vbVy'/scrlbns;-'
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 10
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180STORMY WEATHER AT THE CHATHAMS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 10
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