THE STORM AT GISBORNE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7977, 1 February 1897, Page 3

THE STORM AT GISBORNE.

SIMILAR TO NAPIER'S EXPERIENCE.

THE ROTOMIIANA/S PASSAGE.

UNPItECKDENTMI) KXPERIEiNUE OF

CAPTAIN GIBB AND HIS OFFICERS.

THE VESSEL WEATHERS THE

STORM ADMIRABLY,

FBE PEEBa ASGOOXA.TION.]

GiSBOBKE, This day.

A storm of unprsc.edented violauce raged all Friday nijjht and Saturday morning, tho wind blowiug with hurricauo force, and the rnin teeming in torrents, fences wete levelled to the ground in all directions, and treea uprooted in great numbers, but there was no damage to dwellings. 'Xhe falling treea caused considerable injury to the telegraph wires, and communication with the outer world was cut off and not restored till this morning. Tho steamer Eotomahana, whinh left Napior ou Friday oveniug, met with the full force of tbo blast, and did not arrive till 3.30 on Saturday afternoon, having bean hovo to in the midst of the atorm, Captain Gibb hud a moat anxious uight, the weather being the dirtiest ho h*s over experienced on tho s«cw Zealand ooist. Batweon 9 acd 10 o'olook on Saturday morning the gale blsw with Buoh violenoe tie the officers have never known before ia any part of tho world, whilst the eea running they deeoribe as of inexpressible grandeur, 'i'be Rotomabana being skilfully bandied, weathered tho storm admirably.

The Tβ Anau, which arrived this moaning, had s rough pHHsage of forty-eix hours from Auckland.

bailed—J3arque Lutterwortli for London, with a cargo of wool and tallow valued at £45,0&0.