According to the telegraphic reports, a south-east gale, accompanied, by ram and a heavy sea, was blowing at Napier yesterday morning. At Wellington and Blenheim there was a fresh breeze from the Bamo direction. At these twoplacea it was also " overcast and rainy." At Lyttelton the wind is described as having been north-east, and light; and, strangely enough, at Christchurch, Timaru, and V&mnrn there was a calm. At Port Chalmers there wan a fresh breeze, but at all the inland stations in Otago, there was either a calm or a light breeze. At Bealey, among the tree-top i, it was stormy. The easterly gale, which bos been felt here as a stronc off-shore wind, seeme to have been restricted to the northward of Blenheim, and to have been experienced in its full force on the east coastof the North Island. The Charles Edward, for the north, and the vVaipara, for Hokitika, sailed for their respectivejlesti£ttions at an early hour yesterday miming. The brigantine Cere? is announced to sail this evening for Newcastle.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1113, 21 February 1872, Page 2
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