WINTRY WEATHER

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 209, 29 May 1920, Page 6

WINTRY WEATHER

A HEAVY FALL OF KAIL,

The grip of winter was felt last evening, when lietween C p.m. and i P- 111, the temperature dropped perceptibly, heralding a very heavy Innltall, which tip an enormous clattcr and lasted for about a quarter of an hour. The full was heavy enough to give a covering'of white to' tho streets, and piled nu **■ foot in depth in corners, where it took hours to dissolve into frozen slush. Curiously eunuch, the hail shower concluded with a single exceedingly vivid Hash of lightning and a double fortu crash of thnmle*.

Tub Dominion's Masterton correspondent reports that all day yesterday the atmosphere about Miisterton was-bitterly cold. During lire aiternoon the sky cleared, but soon clouded again, and at about. 7 p.m. rain aud sleet commenced to fall. Lfttcr in Ibe evening tlio sturfl again shone, anil there was every prornise of u sharp frost, HEAVY SNOWFALL IX CANTERBURY. By TeleeraDli—Press Association Christchurch, May 25. Last night snow fell heavily on the higher levels in Canterbury. At Cheviot the fall was six inches, the peninsula hills are capped with snow. ■ KING COUNTRY EXPERIENCES GALE. Te Kuiti, May 28. ( There was an exceptionally heavy last night/ AH the wires are down north of Otorohanga, and communication juvni Taranaki is cut somewhere near Awakino. The wind, which was. of unusual severity, Mow in a big plato glass window and did other damage.