HURRICANE AT FIJI.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1839, 15 January 1880, Page 3

HURRICANE AT FIJI.

[By Tblegbaph.] [Via Auckland.J By the schooner Meg M-rrilies, from Fiji, news has been received to the 3rd instant.

The tidal wave and hurricane at Fiji on the 11th ult., did great damage and caused serious loss of life. Amongst tho drowned were McPherson, of Tairuni, and J. B. Grundy, manager to Wm. Baily ; also, 8. L. P. Winter, and two Fijians who were lost at Bau in a half-decked boat. At Bau three Fijian men and three women were drowned in a canoe. At Curu two natives were drowned and every house blown down. At Kadmair and Madroch the whole country was denuded of tinber, and the Native food crops destroyed. The steamer Go-a-head, engaged in towing a number of logs for the construction of Nicholls' patent slip, had to cut them adrift, to secure the safety of the steamer, and the progress of that much needed work at Levuka is retarded inconsequence. The Bchooner Stanley, of Queensland, 113 tons register, caught the full force of the gale. She had 150 Islanders on board, for Fiji, who were kept under battened hatches for thirty hours, with neither air nor food, and some of them suffering from dysentery at the time. Fifty subsequently died and one committed suicide on being discharged from the Lovuka Hospital. Ten more deaths are expected. H.M.B. Emerald, which had on board Sir Arthur G-ordon and suite, en route for Rotumahe, encountered the cyclone off that island, but managed to weather it safely. Strange to say, the wind was in a very different direction at that island from what it waß at the Fiji group. Rotumahe suffered in consequence.