DESTRUCTIVE HAIL STORM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1770, 18 February 1888, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE HAIL STORM.

The "North Otago Tlme^ l ' raporta that a few d.ys ag r * a ainru ar hailstorm

ocoarred io the Ot« popo d str ot ttweeping aor «• h pr</pnry <>f Me*»rs a. »nd G. P»ter«ou. The srerm, from the desorip tton given, must h<«ve been one of the •ever* at awl raost duHtraotive av«r known m th<- district Mr Patursor. Inf rtuß us thnt abon> 6-30 p.m. he ob'e'ved w f n»t

he iipp shq t» be a rain or hail aqaall pass over n portion of the .ropery, Ihe foil w- g morning at 10 o'o ook h vlst<pd ih«- p o», aud io h'" ostoQishmont f a d <hat »bt <pof oati» 400 de wide at.d abnat h* f a mle long, hi«d oven a. o >vi« pletniy thr shed on tb.4t it * »J not

p*y tot the -wine to bind it. T«-.^roun Win cov«rt-d t a depih of 2m, with ■ eoltJ oimin^ of c*, and i < gome p rtg, i<« thd vtfttf run > oj ?(im «ld inj{B, whert* the h»U, or inna.a o' ice, hd clled down, • hwrH worn a ilid bad* «.f ice thre« f et, thick, \'r P-»t,tera >n states th*t h« h»B n > ' id«a as to wh*' fj the hai wtonea may have beuu, bu j i uinj by Appear tuoea ne

wood cay the} ra -at h'Ve neea g'»- d •zd iv ps of io . Tti qmn'i y w<ioh foil uttiiß hay b en immenae, when it le Oi>nßidt>rt)d that tltir cix'e n hours i r n*n s ill two inches m deph oa the level wround.