FLY STORM.

Temuka Leader, Issue 330, 18 December 1880, Page 2

FLY STORM.

A remarkable spectacle was witnessed on the Hudson River, America, it being" nothing more nor less .than a heavy storm of flies, sirailiar to the one recorded in the London “Telegraph as having been witnessed at Havre - ' week or two ago. The steamer Martin if bound south, encountered the fly storm between New Hamburg and Newburg. . As described by the Loudon “Telegraph, - f it was, like the Havre storm, seemingly, “ a great drift of black snow, and it -jSj reached southward from shore to shore, t||| as far as the eye could reacE and ns high j|||l up. There were millions upon of flies, and they hurried northward thick as snowflakes driven by a strom»||B wind. They lodged upon Jk be clothiog||B of the passengers on the steamer, an«B were minutely examined. They weip||H long and black, and had white and the cloud must hrve been miles i||H length. The steamer Mary Powell ra|||H into the fly storm off Haverstraw, andlH first mate Bishop says that. in. all hilafl experience he never witnessed each