STORMS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1911, Page 1

STORMS

ON LAND AND SEA.

WRECKS ON ENGLISH COAST

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.-—COPYRIGHT. ]

London, Jan. 13.

An abnormal gale is raging on the eastern and southern coasts of Great Britain, with a velocity of GO miles, and occasionally a greater violence. ’

Smaller vessels have suffered severely. Lifeboats made a numhrr of gallant rescues in face of mountainous seas.

The steamer Bushmills struck the Nimrod Rocks, near Holyhead. The crew of 21 escaped in the boats.

A lifeboat rescued the st earner Selby Abbey’s passengers. Nine of the erew are still aboard.

GALES IN AUSTRALIA

Sydney. Jan. 13. The storm has blown out, and the rain ceased.

Flood waters caused considerable damage in the low-lying suburbs. The gale was responsible for a fair amount of havoc to buildings, fences, ami trees round the city. hi the country some phenomenal falls are recorded. At Nowra over I.3in fell.

The latest reports slate that the Nepean. Ilawkesbury. and other coastal rivers, when* heavy floods were threatened, are subsiding.

Arriving vessels report a rough t irne in the gale. The Hawkesbury river rose 27ft above summer level. The water was several feet above the flooring of the bridges. -A wide area of crops is inundated. and some residents were forced to leave their homes. Considerable damage has been done along the Nepean valley. The railway bridge at Warialda was washed away.

Reports from country districts are jneagre owing to telegraphic interruptions. It is believed that the northern river districts suffered a good deal.

BUZZARD IN CANADA.

Ottawa, Jan. 13.

Twelve transcontinental and Canadian Pacific trains are immovable on the lines among tin* Rocky Mountains.

The blizzard continues, and the temperature is s(><leg. below zero in the prairie cities.

FLOODS IN SOUTH AFRICA

BUILDINGS SWEPT AWAY.

(Received 11. 5.5 a.m.) Capetown. Jan. 13. The Vaal River is flooded. At St antlerton two hotels ami other buildings were swept away. The damage amounts to t3<>,oo".

WIND VELOCITY 85 MILES.

(Received It. 9.10 a.m.) Sydney. Jan. I I.

An easterly gale Bile on Thursday night reached a velocity of 85 miles. It was the worst gale experienced for years, ami remarkable as being the only easterly uale ever recorded in Sydney.

GERMA N STE AME R I ()U N DERS

(Received 11. 5.55 a.m.) Berlin. Jan. 13. The German steamer Mariaruss has foundered at Norderney. Twelve persons were drowned.

CREW OF SELBY SAVED.

(Received 11. ‘’.55 a.m.)

Berlin. Jan. 13.

The remainder of the crew of the S< Ibey Abbey wrecked at the Haak of Holland have been saved. UNSEASONABLE WEATHER IN NEW ZEALAND. [per press association.] Levin. Jan. 14. Unseasonable weather damaged fruit and vegetable crops in Levin and surrounding parts last night. Eleven degrees of frost were regis tered at Weraroa Experimental Farm, a thing unprecedented i: any January.