VIOLENT WEATHER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13481, 22 July 1907, Page 5

VIOLENT WEATHER.

GALE AT NORFOLK ISLAND.

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph . — Copy r i ght . NORFOLK ISLAND, July 20. An easterly gale is raging here.

HURRICANE AT GREYMOUTH.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE.

(Per Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, July 21. The severest gale within memory swept over the town on Saturday night and Sunday morning, doing enormous damage. Nearly every place in the business portion of the town suffered some damage. On Mawjhera Quay, plate glass windows were smashed, and several verandahs carried bodily away. The roofs of the sheds in the railway yard were torn off, and Detective Campbell's residence was almost totally destroyed. Victoria Park suffered severely, the grandstand being blown down, and the fences laid low. / Two houses in the course of erection, near the park, collapsed. The foundry roof was taken off. Ini tho residential portion of the town fences were blown down, trees uprooted, and several chimneys blown down: The gale is still raging, and it is 1 unsafe to^ be in the streets, as sheets of iron, etc., are flying everywhere. The damage is estimated to fun into thousands of pounds. Although several narrow escapes have occurred, no serious accidents are reported.