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STORMS ON THE COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 97 
1 am., “Governor Blackall,’ 18 miles off Newcastle, 2 a.m. 
At Morpeth, the night w atchman on the steamer’s wharf reported 
that there was a shock of aoa os between 1 and 2 a.m., that 
lifted the steamer “ Collaroy,” and made a rumbling noise, at 
the same time it distiirbed the water very much. The squall 
reached the “ Boomerang” at Seal Rocks, at 3 a 
At the Clarence and Richmond Rivers as well as in in Queensland 
no such gale is reported. At the Tweed River it was blowin 
strong from N. and West, and in the afternoon of the 11th Sep- 
tember veered to S.W. e schooner “ Noumea’’ coming from 
New Caledonia in latitude 30° met the S.W. gale on the 10th, 
but this was probably only the first puff—he sa ys s nothing of the 
furious gale; and the “ City of San Francisco” reports that on 
the 11th of September he had strong winds from N.N.W. with 
heavy sea, and wind veering to N. , barometer feline gradually 
till it reached 29: 32; the captain determined the steamer to be 
‘on the moderate or eastern side of 2 ¢ clone, ‘ticker from its 
centre about 180 miles; wind continued to veer to west and 
moderated ; passed Lord Howe’s Island at noon on 12th, wind 
now W. S.W.; ; during the night of the 12th had violent squalls 
of wind and ain, with heavy topping sea from southward and 
westward. e above is the “ City’s’ report as she passed Lord 
Howe’s Island at noon on the 12th. It is evident from her 
the captain w 
_ eyclone to west of him, for the “ Noumea” schooner was about 
~ 180 miles west of him and saw nothing of it. The truth was om 
was passing from the tropical into the polar os and t 
wind veered in a normal way from N. round by W. t 
It is worthy of remark that the first puff of the feos passed 
over ae twenty hours before the main storm, and over the 
“Boomerang” seventeen hours before; so that ‘this puff was 
Barring in the same direction, but slower than the great storm. It 
is seldom that such a gale as the one we have been considering 
_ offers any satisfactory means of determining its rate of progress, 
t the violent squall was not to be mistaken; and though 
Wictvce generally forget to give the time of changes, this one, 
owever, was so marked, that they have in this case given the times. 
w, if we here repea at these times and see the rate of progress, 
we pat some valuable Seatite, which show pe actual pe ‘ 
s the same as the 
of such a storm over the surface is by no 
velocity of the wind. In fact, that the wind i in ;deplactan a 
uses up in so doing its own velocity. 
reacne 
— Neweast, 60 mile, 1 a.m. sal rohit 
* Boom ” 100 miles, 3 am. == 20 
s ny si Bonanse r 3lackall, “Sam. = 19 yi 
