Gale in Wellington.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 164, 16 June 1883, Page 3

Gale m Wellington.

„,--,.,! I W*'U 13 (X t P' 1 .Paper.] : •' Abontherly gale of more than ordinary severity;, and accompanied by heavy showers of rain, swept over the bay from < early m% 'oing until : sunset on Thursday, and none of the : steamers I which had been announced to leave port ! got away to time ; indeed, the only departures were the Binemoaand lonic, which sailed about 4 o'clock, when the wind had moderated. , The Go- A.head andLjfelton. which bad left the wharf during the previous evening, ,bad to bring-, up m Bay, anu the former, finding that she was dragging her anchor, and making unpleasantly rapid progress towards ISoames Island, returned to -the Queen's Wharf shortly after daylight. The , Lyttelton drifted: ■ ta s within about a mile ; of Lowry" feay, where she managed cb bring up, so far as could be made out. from town, by, steaming up to her anchor. The Wallace had also made a start, but returned to the wharf to await a change for the better. The Huiama^e a trip to Sonnies Island, and brought off the Canterbury contingent of single women, per steamer lonic, having a lively time 6t it on the return trip. The barque Cumbria and three-masted schooner Thornhill, anchored some distance off the Railway Wharf, rode out the gale without dragging m the least, as did also all the small craft. The wind fell off towards evening;. .The barometer .rose rapidly throughout the day, changing from 29.60 to 29.953n>?x hoimi.