SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 7484, 31 March 1888, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

MABTERTON, Mahch 30. The results of the late gale have been highly disastrous. Wellington will take some time to recover from it, and even this neat little town shows signs of the great force of tho wind. Major Dane and your correspondent went out over the WellingtonManawatu liae on Wednesday as far as Paikaikaiiki and back, and encountered the full force of the gale. Some Maoris camping near the Beashore engaged in gathering and preparing shellfish were having a lively time with their tents. It was all the train could manage to make headway in safety against it; and the rain, driven against the windows in Bheots, found its. way in streams over the carriage floor. Coming here this morning we had to drive the eight miles from Wellington to Petone in 'buses in consequence of the Hutt line having been washed away. The vehicles, all well loaded, were formed into a train, which only stopped at the station in the ordinary way. The morning being a lovely one the novelty was enjoyable, but what a wreck the railway line is. The roadbed is washed completely away in placf s, and a third of the concrete was broken down completely. The Petone pier, through which the Frozen Meat Company's hulk Jubilee unceremoniously cut its path, now presents a doleful aspect, as do tho ruins of boat-sheds at various F ° int: '' TAPANUI, March 30. Another fearful rainstorm Bet in yesterday with thnnder arid lightning. The country in many places is under water.