HURRICANE AT TONGA.
A private letter received from Mr. A. C. Walker, purser of the Union Company's steamer Ovnlau, by the Fiona from Fiji, says On Wednesday morning, Bocomber 11, while wo wore lying alongside the wharf at Nukualofa, a heavy north-east gale sprang up, and as it was blowing right) on to the wharf, wo could not possibly got away. The wind increased all day, and a heavy sea got up, and the wind veered round to the north-west. Atsix p. in. it blow with hurricane force, accompanied by terrific rain, till about nine p.m., when the hurricane was at its height. Tho schooner Waiwera, which Mr. Cbaraborlin recently sold to tho natives of Niuofoo, had just arrived from the latter place loaded with copra, and during the blow she dragged her anchors and went on to the roof and sunk, only a portion of the topmast being visible above the water, and is a total wreck. All the rest of the vessels gob off without any damage. A good many native houses and fences were blown away. The blow was not felt in any other portion of the group.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10018, 3 January 1896, Page 5
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191HURRICANE AT TONGA. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10018, 3 January 1896, Page 5
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