THE WEATHER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4579, 27 February 1893, Page 4

THE WEATHER.

Heavy Gale. [Pan Pbbsb Association.! , HAWERA, Fra. 25. . Owing to the gale and floods daring the last forty-eight hours, heavy damage has been done. The Warau bridge at Opunake has been wrecked, and the riVer will be impasßablo until the " flood subsides. Edmunds' flax-mill was badly damaged, and the Qanui mill has gone out to sea*, The water r races at the Wawae,tPungarehii! Oaoiti and, "Eltliam road butter factories .' have been , washed away. It is reported that all the culverts on the Eltham road have been washed away, Considerable damage has fbeen done to buildings, fencing and roads throughout the district. r! Fbb.26. . Captain , Edwin cays that the, recent severe, .weatherrno|rfchw&rd of Lytteltoh and Hokitika t waB oaueed by a cyclone, which is moati likely identical with that which caused the second dieastrous floods at Brisbane. It came fromj .tbo north-w^at, travelled acroßS the Bay. of PJenty to the: south-east; and; at.l a.m. to< was about two Hundred miles eastward of the East Cape. The centre of f this cyclone .was seen from Opotiki yesterday morning, and described as a heavy bank of clouds. The lowest reported /reading was 2912 at Hokianga about 1 a.m. on Fob. 24, and the total fall of the barometer there was seven-tenths o£ an inch^between 9 a.m. on Feb. 23 and 1 a.m. on Feb. 24> the increase , of pressure- Bince then, heing nearly the same amount. A cyclone from the north-west crossed the northern part of the I!?prth Island on Feb. 9, but the lowest pressure does not appear to have been below 29.50. There are, now no evidencea of disturbance until about Peb. r^^hea'a/wesfeil^ga^ is ; .due/-'-, ';'■■■;;!. ; ; Steady rain fell in the northern dytricb during Friday night, and on Saturday the weather was stormy and cold. „..., , : - Steady rain set in at ABhburton pn Friday evening, and continued until Saturday morning. Some grain is still unstaoked in the upper part of the district, but as the, country was getting very dry, and the grasß failing inconsequence, the rain' will do a great deal more good than harm. ■' ]■ ; ,