SEVERE STORMS.
SYDNEY, Thursday. A thunderstorm at Taree was accompanied by immense hail. Many Windows were l,roken, and numbers of fowls and calves were killed. AUCKI«\ND, ThursUaj-, . At Suva reports have been received that a hurricane took place at Taviuni on Friday last, doing damage to the cocoanut plantations. At the inquest held to-dn\i touchm X tho death of the steward of the s.s. IH'awea, named Fulcla, who was drowned last night by. falling oft the wjiarf, tho jury returned a vwdict that death was caused by misadventure by drowning.. The jury recommended the authorities be approached to bring- under th« notice of the Humane Society of Aus>tralasis ,th e gallant and heroic action Of Robert Hall, the third pHieer of the s.s. Kitawa. in attempting lo rescue deceased. Hall was im the water 15 minutes and succeeded in getting a rope round Fulda, by which he was pulled on deck, and artificial respirata'Km for over 40 residing in Durredin. minutes was tried without avail. Deceased is sai-d^ to have a sister
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 317, 7 December 1906, Page 4
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172SEVERE STORMS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 317, 7 December 1906, Page 4
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