HEAVY WEATHER IN TIMARU.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7703, 4 January 1905, Page 3

HEAVY WEATHER IN TIMARU.

DASIAGE TO THE EASTERN rc MOLE. l " d< (Per Press Association.) m TIMARU, Jan. 3. m The heavy sea running hero today washed away 170 feet of the W eastern molt', How 7 in co irse of con- re struction. tn T=== ti dc A STORMY HOLIDAY TRIP. m ti —• CVJ (Per Press Association.) rt WELLINGTON, Jan. 2. u\ The steamer Mararoa, which tooE u over fifteen hundred passengers on oi an excursion to I'icton to-day, ran tl into heavy weather shortly after ni clearing Wellington Heads, with the h result that the passengers had a f c particularly lively experience. The w steamer rolled heavily through the si big seas running in the Strait, and the crowxlcd decks were continually awash. As hundreds of those on Dl board_ were miserably ill the scene "' was far removed from that visually associated with holiday-making. The |°, rolling and lurching decks were cov- fi ered with unhappy juien, and 1' children prostrated by illness, and f though every care was taken « num- '}■ bcr of minor accidents occurred. One " woman had a leg broken. " CHESS TOURNEY. '] (Per Press Association.) ' OAMARU, Jan. 2. i The chess championship ninth round resulted : Pleasants beat Kell--1 ing, Miles beat Barnes, W. E. Mason ° ' beat Adair, Edwards beat Davies, ' Clelaml beat Gifford. The games ' Forsyth v. B. Mason and J. Mason v. Hamcl are unfinished.