DESTRUCTIVE STORM AT THE THAMES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3406, 16 June 1868, Page 3

DESTRUCTIVE STORM AT THE THAMES.

On Thursday eveuing one of tbe severest storms we have experienced parsed over the district, and was attended with considerable damage and great inconvenience to a number of the community who were exposed to its full force. The gale commenced early in the evening, the day having been showery throughout, jand increased in violence until after midnight, when it gradually lapied. The wind w»s nearly north-east, and passed over in violent gusts, tearing down numberless tents in which the minerß and their families were preparing to rest for the night. To attempt re-orection in the face of such weather — for the wind wag accompanied by frequent heavy squalls of rain — was out of the question, and so the unfortunate occupant* bad to take refuge with their neighbours who were fortunate euough to possess a weather-boa^d building, or whose tent was so admirably fixed as to withstand the violence of the wind. In some inMtances tents were sent rocket-like into the air, and in others razed instantaneously to the ground, to the surprise of the occapants. At Waiotahi a large weather-board building in course of erection for Mr. Ledyard was liberally blown in pieces by the force of the wind. Tbe building, which was 46 feet long, had been completed, with the exception of shingling. On the Karaka a dnellinghou3e was lifted off the blocks, and deported a short distance away. At Shortland portions of galvanised-iron roofing and loose timbers were flying about in all directions, rendering the streets dangerous to pedestrians. Streets we have said, Out they were mere streams of mud, and. we fear, will continue so for souie time to come Unfortunately, the Improvement Committee have other work to perform, and decline to devote their attention to ao practical a scheme as that of mending our ways.— Advertiser.

Surely it must have been the name of the locality which suggested to some wsg the manufacture of the following paragraph:-" The- wife of a retired soldier, livmg at Nunns'-hill, near V*lparaiHo, has recently brought forth, at one birth, four boys and tW" girls " This exceeds the loyally of kdiea " who love their lords" to an extent utterly inadmissible. But it cannot be true. No reasonable woman would ao rar forget herself. , a Chajjcb for the Scientific —The following advertisement appears in the Cowrt Journal— " A young laty of forty-eight, haviDg a moderate income but possessing a patent for a n»w invention, iriibes to marry a gentleman of sixty-tire, iWell ,vtwe& in chimiitry." . . • ; '