SOUTH SEA ITEMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 690, 8 May 1879, Page 2

SOUTH SEA ITEMS.

HURRICANE AT TONGATAHU.

AUCKLAND.

May 4. The Enterprise, schooner, from Satno, brings later Island news. i Tongatn.hu was visited by another hurricane on the 7th and Bth ultimo. j At Nukualofa (the port town and seat of Government) all the buildings facing I the beach, commencing with Messrs ; Godeflroy and Sons' Western copra , house, to the Government copra house, inclusive, have collapsed. Fully twothirds of the native houses are blown ■ down. The new Catholic church at Moafaga has completely collapsed, and the new house in course of erection was greatly damaged. The roads up country are impassible, on account of , the blown down trees. And the damage | to native houses is fully equal to average. At Nukuarapa the cocoanuts are damaged to the extent of at least half the i expected crop. The mercurial- barometer fell from 29.60 to 28, when there was a lull, and when the mercury began to rise the gale decreased until at 29.18 it was moderate. The wind having, contrary to the rule in the South hemisphere, gone round to the, south, instead of the north. The ships in harbor have to thank this circumstance for their safety. I General Bartlet, who is looked upon 1 as a successor to Colonel Steinberger, has been sworn in to aid the Samoan I Government in carrying out its laws, ami | declared his determination to conserve all the interests of the white residents settled here, and to respect their property, to protect capital, to foster enterprise and commerce, and to establish such relations with other nations as will make them respeoted.