ROUGH WEATHER

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 June 1925, Page 2

ROUGH WEATHER

CHRISTCHURCH S WILD NIGHT.

(Per Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURcJ, June 14. Yesterday's southerly storm developed into one of the wildest nights experienced in Christchurch for a long time. At intervals, heavy showers of hailt sleet and rain, passed over the city, and .throughout the wind maintained a very high velocity. It- was still very wintry to-day, wnh a good deal of rain and sleet. MARAROA’S WORST TRIP. CHRISTCHURCH, June 15. The ferry steamer Mararoa. which left Wellington at 7.55 p.m. on Saturday, arrived at Lyttelton nt 6.30 this morning, one of the longest trips on record. Ihe delay was cartsed by heavy seas and the gale Sometimes the vessel made but two knots an hour, the weather being dirty and squally. The captain said that if was the worst trip experienced on the ferry steamer. Terrible seas were encountered.

’WANGANUI’S. HURRICANE.

WANGANUI. June 14.

Wild weather continues here. During the early hours of Sunday, the wind blew with hurricane force, accompanied bv heavy rain. The temperature is low, and conditions generally are unpleasant. EFFECT ON SIIIPPING'.

WELLINGTON, Jane 14.

A southerly gale has interfered with shipping. All the small vessels are still in port being unable to face the tremendous sea that is now running in the Straits. The seas are breaking manv miles distant. It is slated that the present is one of the heaviest gales ever experienced in the vicinity of Wellington. Among the large vessels due to arrive is the New Zealand Company’s steamer Or-ari, which has wirelessed that rhe is hove to in the Straits, waiting for the wsather to moderate, am 1 e/n'x-ts to make port on Monday. The Nelson ferry .steamer JCait -a, of 319 tons, left Nelson last night for WclFngtom She was due this morning, but has made no It is believed that she is sheltering on the southern ;-’de of the Straits. Sb° carries no wireless The Arahura left Picion f”r Wellington. but she encountered such heavv seas that she returned to port.