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Show HURRICANE IN THEJJI GROUP Victoria. R. C May 4. News has been brought by the steamer Makura that the hurrlcan" which devastated j FIJI, March 26, did great damage al- so at Nouga, New . Caledonia. The . French steamer Voile de la Clotat, and the French bark ' Guethary, anchored an-chored at Nouga, were badly damaged by being bumped against' tho piers. The German crul6or Cormorant whs caught In the hurricane In the 'Loyalty 'Loy-alty group and her decks flooded and a number of boats swe-pt away. In the FIJI group the. hurricane did damage of over $1,000,000 and " catu-) catu-) ed much loss of life. Suva was wrecked, wreck-ed, many houses being blown dow n or unroofed. Scarcely a house was left , undamaged. Plantations suffered to ! a great extent. .' j More than a score of cutters sev-' sev-' eral bulks and a great number of boats were wrecked. l |