A SEVERE GALE.
BAROMETER UNPRECEDENTEDLY LOW. After tho lovely day with which we were favoured on June 7, a very decided change took place in the weather, and during the night the wind set in strong' from the northward, and working round during the early morning of June 8 to the north-west, blow fiercely from that direction with gale force all day, accompanied by frequent blinding squalls of sleet and rain. The storm did not come without warning, for late on June 7 tho barometer began to fall rapidly, and on the Bth of June registered 28 - 9, tho lowest reading recorded for the past 22 years, in fact, a full degree lower than the glass denoted at Samoa during the terrible hurricane of March last. Fortunately the storm was not so fierce as the barometric indications would have led us to expect, and we are glad to have no disasters or accidents worthy the name to chronicle.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9395, 17 June 1889, Page 11
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