STORM AT THE ISLANDS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12506, 6 April 1909, Page 3

STORM AT THE ISLANDS.

SERIOUS DAaiAGE. [Press Association — Copyright.] „ -' ■' Received April 6, 0.40 a.m. Noumea, April 5. The steamer Physique nas arrived. She communicated iat sea -on the 3rd hist, with the steamer St. Louis, .en route from Vila to Sydney. The latter reported that on March 29th a terrific cyclone passed over thelslarids from tlie. south-east, causing (great destruction .of - shipping, plantation sj .'and other property. '■.'.•- ■'■.;■• . ■'.'•■. A tidal wave swept TeOuma, carrying dwellings and : crops away. The Government Buildings were blown down at Vila. ■— ..".'•' , __ The Schoouefs Trois'Amis: and-Gal-tea and Government yacht Onioni were cast ashore, the last-named being refloated. When the St. Louis left nonews' had arrived from the other islands. ■'.'•." ■ '.'■,- ■■ "•:.