GREAT STORM AT NELSON.

Daily Southern Cross, 7 November 1868, Page 7

GREAT STORM AT NELSON.

THB Examiner of thn 24th ultimo says:— "The weather during the whole of the past week has been, of a very tempestuous character, the wind chiefly blowing from S.W. to N.W. with a low barometer, and the vessels that have arrived within the last few days all brought intelligence of bad weather at sea. Bat the oUmax was reached here on Thursday evening, when, with the wind at N.W., it blew in terrific gusts, and, it happening to be a spring tide, the sea roseconsideraby above its ordinary height; the Haven road, at high water (which occurred about 9 o'clock), beiag completely covered, the sea in places washing into the bouses facing the road. All the shipping iv the harbour felt the effect of the gale ; two barges and two or three small boats were completely destroyed. The sohooner ' Margaret Oampbell,' lying on the op* per side of the Government wbarf, sustained damage by chafing against the iron bands which fasten the outer posts, and several feet of her side timbers will have to be removed. The boat-house, opposite the Harbour Office, was completely washed away, and the boat kept there belonging to the Government officers, was with difficulty saved, : Some of the wharves were also damaged, but — with the exception/ of two or three old and frail erections, whioh have nearly disappeared— not to any serious •xtent. A .large amount of injury has been done, however, to the Haven-road. Between Auckland Point and Levien's warehouse, the face of the road has in several places been washed completely away, leaving the sleepers of the railway without support; So high was the tide tbat the ketch ' Folly,' of about 30 tons, wrecked outside the Boulder Bank la«t week, was washed over the Bank into deep water. The night was exceedingly dark, except when thd sky was lit up with vivid flashes of lightning, which, with the pealing of the thunder, and the howling of the tempest, imparted to it a solemn grandeur. The fellmbngery establishment of Mr. Bdttany, on the mud flat, sustained, we are informed, a gocd dual of damage, bat we have heard of no mischief caused in may other part of the town, except that Mr. W. M. Stan tun had a bow window at his residence in Upper Collingwood-street blown in about midnight. So violent a storm has not been witnessed iv Nelson •r several years, and, in the opinion of many per-, ion*, we never experienced its eq.ua}," j