The Weather.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2028, 9 February 1887, Page 2

The Weather.

The weather has been rather rough on some places in the colony. At New Plymouth on Saturday a good dgal of damage to outbuild* ings, fences, and fruit trees is reported, but the most serious of the casualties is the destruction of the railway geods-sbedatMoturoa. The .Railway Hotel had a chimney blown down ; Mr Berry’s store, in Queen-street, was partly unroofed, and in various parts of the town sheds in a state of collapse are to be met with. Of the crops in some places in the northern districts of Canterbury, nearly half the grain has been washed on to the ground. At Dunedin on the same day con* aiderable damage was done to fences and gardens. In many oases windows were blown in. In South Dunedin a four-roomed house was completely wrecked, a gust of wind seizing it and causing it to collapse. Two of the inmates were slightly injured. At Hokitika great damage was done to fences and houses; trees were uprooted and the fruit crops destroyed. One whirlwind cleared all the loose buildings, &c., in its way. It is feared great damage has been done to mining flumes and water-races.