SEVERE GALE AT THE THAMES.
[EY TELEGRAPH.—OWN* CORRESPONDENT.] Thames, Monday. A very heavy south-easterly gale raged here last eveuing, and did considerable damage to the fencing around the Onslow Company's tailing allotment, besides blowing down 40 or 50 feet of the fluming and flooding the allotment with sea water and debris. The p.s. To Aroha, recently purchased by the Northern Steamship Company, also sustained considerable injury whilst lying alongside the Goods' Wharf. The side of the steamer was badly damaged and her paddle-box stove in, which incapacitated her from making her usual trip to I'aeroa this morning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8326, 5 August 1890, Page 5
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