A HIGH WIND.
The Wellington Press has the following: —"There has lately been some discussion concerning the violence of the wind in different parts of New Zealand, and a Wellington resident related, &a a proof of the superiority of this city's nor'-westers, the circumstance that, some years ago, a flat-bottomed boat lying on the beach here was raised bodily in the air by the wind, carried some distance, and fell on a lady passing by and killed her. The accuracy of this statement "was questioned, and we were appealed to to decide the point. The occurrence did actually take place about the middle of the year 1843. The boat was 'ying bottom upwards at Te Aro, undergoing the procass of painting, when a gust of wind sweeping up the bay got under it, took it up like a balloon, carried it some distance, and finally dropped it, with the fatal result mentioned, exactly opposite the Ship Hotel, which was on the site now occupied by Mr Macdonald's baker's shop, in Manners-street. There are many old settlers still in Wellington who remember the occurrence perfetcly well. The lady who was killed was the mother of our esteemed fellow-citizen, Mr James Cattell. The boat, or rather punt, was 12 feet long, and wide in proportion, and was owned by Messrs Houghton and Powell."
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1691, 28 January 1888, Page 3
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221A HIGH WIND. Temuka Leader, Issue 1691, 28 January 1888, Page 3
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