To Fruit Farmers special mo Tun Mx.c..4."
Wellington, N.Z., Jan, 18:
Fierce gales are roaring across the country, widespread damage to fruit. Fi estimate that they have lost a. third of their crops.
Power and telephone lines have been down, and Wellington has twice suffered a "black out" during the last few days. Floods are dis~ rupting communications.
Blinding dust-storms yesterday swept down into the Esk Valley. They were so dense that motors, with their headlights switched on, collided head-on during the daytime.—Reuter.
London, Jan. 18.
Picked men of a special branch of Scotland Yard are stated to be searching for secret "clearing house" for explosives and home-made bombs of the type used in the outrages which have occurred in various parts of the country.
This "clearing house, is believed, is in London.—Reute:
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