TERRIFIC HURRICANE AT NEW CALEDONIA
DETAILS OF THE BEGEM , VISITATION. Sydney, February 27. Details havo been received of tho hiirricano iu Now Caledonia on February 11. It is deßcribait as ono of tho heaviest experienced. Tho Pagaraonno raining settlement was totalled wrecked. Many people were injured. Six rnon in a motor-boat attempted to save somn lighters in Iho harbour and worn blown out, to boh. Throe were drowned.' The Ousco township suffered heavily. Two people were killed and eighteen injured. Fifteen lighters, a hulk, and two tugs were sunk, and the steamers La France and B?llambi wero bloim ashore.— Press Association.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3016, 1 March 1917, Page 5
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