THE BEACH AND BREAKWATER.
A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE
About npon tho rain ceased, end the wind was left to exercise its own free will upon tho tumultuous waters that broke upon tbe beach. The epeotaole preeontod was one of wild and magnificent grandeur; huge rollers, came crashing on the beach in tremendous, uproarious, mad confusion ; tbe foam was oaughtby the wind, deposited upon the beach and Parade, and wafted over the principal streets in myriads of large and beiutiful H_ka3 The waves lashed up to aud in some places over the Parade wall, and the hundreds Gf persons who watched the soane with an absorbing interest amounting even to excitement, unanimously agreed that nevor before had suoh a sight been seen iv .apier. The breakwater dnriag the day presented to' the eye one mass of angry, riotous, seething water. 'Ihe waves breaking upon it were propelled upwards to an almost inponcojyable height, and, bursting in midair, fell in a mass of spruy, obsouriDg aud enveloping everything noar anil around. What the effect wili be on the structure /laimot i;s yet ba told, but tho ordeal to whieii it has been aud ia being subpeted will bo an excellent test of its staunchness and powers of reßiatauco. If it cocaos out of its present trial unsaathod, or only slightly bruised, its protective strength will be an estall. ohed faot.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7976, 30 January 1897, Page 3
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