THE STORM AT LEVUKA.
(PER PBEBS ASSOCIATION.)
Auckland, March 21.
Fuller details of the hurricane at Levuka show that in the morning Levuka presented a, pitiable sight. Houses, cutters, and boats of all descriptions were jumbled on the beach. A steamer was damaged and two schooners were high and dry on tho beach. Six cutters were totally wrecked, and two native cutters disappeared.
The harbourmaster's office was completely blown away, the bonded store's roof was shifted bodily off and otherwise damaged, the sea wall was destroyed, the Levuka school house had ibe roof blown completely off one Bide, and many other buildings were more or less damaged.
A bridge at Cawai was turned com pletely .upside down.
Roliable authorities state that so much damage was never before occasioned at Levuka by similar visitations.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VXII, Issue 7155, 21 March 1901, Page 2
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