A HEAVY GALE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8095, 24 September 1904, Page 2

A HEAVY GALE.

TIIK TAKAPUNA ARKIVES SAFELY.

The heavy south-easterly gale continued with much violence until yesterday, when it gradually blew itself out. During the day much anxiety was expressed at the non-arrival at Onehunga of the Takapuna, which left here for tho northern port on Wednesday evening. Eventually, however, the welcome news was received tliat she had l>een sighted ab 2.30 p.m., and subsequently that she was entering tlte harbor. — Taranaki News. A later Press Association telegram read : — Tho steamer Takapuna, for the safety of which much anxiety was prevalent in town to-day, arrived from New Plymouth at 4.15 p.m., after a trip extending from 9.15 nn Wednesday night. The weather was the worst experienced by Captain Holford on the coast, the seas running mountains high; but at no time was any serious anxiety felt on board as to the safety of the vessel. The delay was solely due to tlte captain's desire not to take any «. unnecessary risks on the Mnnukau bar. No damage was done to boat or passengers. Captain Norbury, of the Rarawa, which reached Onehunga from New Plymouth yesterday morning, says the weather on the West Coast was the worst in his experience! of twenty years.* Thirty miles off the Manukau! bar , immense rollers' •wept the steamer, smashing the door of a room nnd doing other slight damage. Captain Norbury kept his p'aoe on ths bridge from four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon till nine o'clock yesterday morning. H* was heartily thanked and con-