People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — HURRICANE IN FIJI. [ARTICLE]

HURRICANE IN FIJI.

Town of Suva Suffers Severely and Plantations Ituuietl. Vancouver, B. C., March 14.— I The steamship Mirowera brings particulars terrtfflc hurricanes which swept over the Fiji islands Jan. 6 and 7. The buildings in Suva suffered very sever!;/. The Presbyterian church, the Wesleyan < hurch, the native Bayesian church, and the Church of England were entirely destroyed. Other church edifices were unroofed and the eustom-hous.. bonded store, and many s/nail stores and dwellings were wrecked. The cooanut and banana plantations .w totnlh; ruined. It will take fully live for them to recover from the effects of the .terrible storm. It was the most erious hurricane that has visited the Fiji islands for years. There will be a, great scarcity of food among the .natives owing to the plantations havingbeen destroyed. A few lives were lost.