Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 31 May 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

Columbia (South Caroline), was visited by a hailstorm of a phenomenal character on April 14th. Hailstones two inches in diameter fell with terrible force, driving pedestrians from the streets, and covering the ground to a depth of six inches. Live stock, pigs, poultry j and domestic pets were killed in | large numbers in large numbers in the neighbourhood of the city. In ! almost every hours, for miles around j the windown were smashed to atoms. ! Fruit trees were stripped of their branches, and vegetable and cereal crops were incalculably damaged. Editors, as a rule, are kindI hearted and liberal. An exchange j tells us ot a subscriber who died and ' left fourteen years' subscription unpaid The editor appeared at the grave as the lid was screwed on for the last time, and put in a linen duster, a thermometer, a palm leaf fan, and a recipe for making ice. He thought deceased would need those things where he was going. A facetious correspondent of the Wanganui Herald writes, " why not have a team of trainers and jockeys in the approaching tug-oi-war contest ? lam sure they would , stand a big show, being many of them such adepts in the art of pulling V