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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1108, 10 December 1869, Page 3

Whielwind in Nelson. — On Sunday morning, shortly before eleven o'clock, a portion of tho town was visited by a violent cyclone, which, fortunately, was brief in duration although violent in its action. The direction of the storm appeared to be from the Waimea, apparently dividing at 'the entrance of Toi-Toi Valley, and passing iv au easterly direction oror the northern portion of the town, aud in its course considerable damage : was , inflicted. At the outset its path was marked by levelled crops, small trees - uprooted,- and fenoing scattered ; and when it reached the town, windows were burst open or torn from their hinges in' several houses. Thegroafc- , est mischief occurred about the centre of [ the town. The old stables at tho back of ' Mr. Lane's hotel, and the various contigu--1 ous buildings about the timber yard of 1 Messrs. Curtis Brothers, were rendered " complete wrecks, either topplod over, rent asunder, or bodily lifted from their place and smashed up. At Clapham Rise, two ! poplars and a willow troo wore snapped I off at the roots; aud in Mr. Eingdon's I garden, another willow tree was actually twisteel out of the ground. A cab oa the ' Trafalgar-street staud, was whirled round ', more than once, and from a yard close by i a crate was whisked up to and broke a p window situated twenty feet high. At I Mr. Levion's store,, three shutters, although barred across firmly with the others, were forced outwards with such violence that the iron bar was bent, and j the ends of tho shutters stood on tho ground. As it passed to tho eastward its i violence lessened and tho trees again were , the principal suflbrers ; although we hear fc that in Brook-st., a covv belonging to Mrs. Polglaso was killed by .the blowing down of a. shed. Tho steamer John Perm waa caught in the bay, but, fortunately, no T damage was sustained. TJio> whirlwind ? was observed at Richmond, sweeping past p somo trees not ; far from Mr. Barnicoat' s j residence, and bending- tho poplars like c reeds. Its influence -was not folfc at the a port. — Colonist, Nov. -30^ ' . . . o Flax inEnsland'.— The N.Z. Herald, c on, the authority of a private letter re- ■, 6eived,,say s 'that phormium tenax, or New i Zealand flax, imported into England, an_ a dressed by >maehirieiy*tl-ere, has realised d £l6Bperton.