THE WIGGINS STORM.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3107, 16 March 1883, Page 2

THE WIGGINS STORM.

This, says the Otago “ Daily Times ” is how an American journal described the Wiggins tempest : “It is to strike the Pacific coast at the western extremity of the Isthmus of Nicaragua, and will cross by the old Nicaragua route, tearing up the earth on its way so as to render the work of constructing the Nicaragua Canal mere child’s play. Professor Wiggins had originally intended to bring his storm accross the Isthmus of Panama, but as M. de Lesseps failed to make liberal arrangements with him, ho finally came to an agreement with the promoters of the Nicaragua scheme. On reaching the gulf the storm will, as has] been said, follow the Gulf Stream. If, however, proper inducements are extended to the professor, he will arrange to bring the storm directly across tlie upper part of Florida, so as to facilitate the making of a ship canal across that peninsula From Long Island the storm will proceed to New England by the old route from Green port to Newport, and will ravage Rhode Island, Eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia. Professor Wiggins is as yet undecided as to whether be will send it to the North Pole where it can do no harm, or whether he will launch it against Great Britain. The probabilities are that being a British subject, he will spare the British Islands.