Extraordinary Weather
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in Tahiti Worst Storm for 50 Years
From Our Own, Correspondent
Papeete, Feb. 5.
rE history of our Central Pacific Islands, during the past month, is chiefly a chronicle of the weather.
We are emerging from the longest period of uninterrupted storm our islands have experienced since the mem orable downpour of 1889, when Papeete became a veritable Venice.
Inter-island vessels, as well as ships from overseas, bound for destinations offering only open roadsteads as anchor ages, have crowded the harbour at Pap eete, awaiting the passing of the storm.
Four days ago we had our only glimpses of the sun since January 14, and' those glimpses were interrupted by heavy squalls. During more than a fortnight our roadways have been rivers, our rivers torrents and the countryside a quaking bog.
An old Tahitian friend of mine, from Teahuupoo, came in, yesterday, to inform us that the extraordinary storm has not troubled the southern portions of the island. The central mountains have so protected the southern districts that the weather there is normal. Yet the storm is widespread in northern and north eastern Tahiti.