The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1868. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 204, 28 August 1868, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1868. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington, August 28, 11.23 a.m. The Dunedin correspondent of the Evening Post telegraphs from that city that the schooner Rifleman had arrived from the Chatham Islands, bringing news to the 15th inst. The islands had been visited by three tidal waves, which were attended with loss of life and property at the settlement of Turunga, on the north- side of the island, where the greatest force of the visitation was felt. The settlement was entirely destroyed, no mark being left to tell where it once stood, and the ground being completely covered with sand and seaweed. The inhabitants barely escaped with their lives. The sea went inland lour miles along the coast, carrying a house, with its contents, belonging to Mr Hay, a Bheep farmer, bodily to sea. Some Maoris, in trying to save a boat which was carried out to sea, were drowned. Tbe settlement of Waitangi sustained great loss, houses being shifted, and carried to sea, large quantities of Government stores being also destroyed. The Eifleman, which was lying at Wangaroa, fortunately escaped without injury. The force of the wave at Tapunga smashed drays, and removed to a consiable distance stones of half a ton weight.