ISLAND HURRICANES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3437, 31 January 1912, Page 3

ISLAND HURRICANES.

£IO,OOO DAMAGE DONE. [united press association COPYRIGHT] SEVA, Jan. 30. Lab ass a reports by wireless a hurricane and flood on Sunday. The glass was at 28.28. Damage to the extent of £IO,OOO was done. The ifewa river was flooded, and the damage to crops is reported to be 20 per cent. Wireless communication with Taviuni is interrupted. SUVA, Jan, 30. Da reports a hurricane and flood cn Sunday, with considerable damage. There are no details. Xavua reports floods, with little damage, and Levuka no damage. SUCAR FIELDS DESTROYED. ALSO BANANA CHOPS. AUCKLAND, Jan. 30. The Hen. J. B. Turner. Mayor of Suva, and a member of the Legislative Council of Fiji, who is at present in Auckland, received a cable to-day stating that a gale was blowing over Suva, but that his home there has not been damaged. Mr Turner informed a. •■Star” representative that the Oolon'ial Sugar Company lias a large mill at Labasa, which is a small township on the Island of Yavu Levu. Its crops are mostly sugar cane, and these have no doubt, suffered severely. There are numbers of stores at Labasa, and a population of between 400 and 500. The Hewn River is a waterway about as large as the Waikato, and it drains the eastern side of Yiti 'levu. The Colonial Sugar Company lias also a mill there, and the crops consist of sugar cane and bananas. The cane crops were cut at the end of the year, and some of the crops planted five or six months ago were coming on well. Banana. plantations are up the river on low-lying hmd, and they would be badIv damaged by the stormy winds.