DISASTROUS CYCLONES.
WRECKS AND, LIVSS LOST 1 :^ . ';X'7 : 7 '' ' t Press Assn.— By l,feiegraph-^^oj^yrJighlt) (Received February ,!S, lO.lfjYa.m.) . SIDNEY, Feb. 22. The creW of the barque ' Joliethe, wrecked at New Caledonia during; a cyclone^ have arrived. • Details^show that the barque was lying -at the .wharf" before the storm began. ■-. She was pulled out, but drifted back and bnriipedountil she was stove m and foundered, also ?erionsly damaging the \vharfX , vPJie crew, m the meantime/ after being some hours' m tho rigging; Vlarnberecl to .the wharf.
v The 6mall steamer Poro was ; totally wrecked, but the" crew were, save^. The schooner Grtbtiella, having about.a^do'^seiiaboard, is missing. She is supppsedYto .have -been' lost. Several othtjr^y^els were- damaged. An immense otrij.<s*t of country was devastated; « X. , B&ISBAttE, .Feb^s.X A cyclone unroofed a number of !h'ouse&' ■« m *f harglomindah and CCinn^mul4; and other* extehii'ive damitjge; Was dope. ':& man named Kriowles Was struck ''dead by lightning. - -\
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11515, 22 February 1909, Page 5
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151DISASTROUS CYCLONES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11515, 22 February 1909, Page 5
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