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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7935, 8 January 1906, Page 3

The hailstorm of Tuesday, says the Timaru Herald, was remarkable for its ( irregularity within small spaces. One person tells of half a patch of one vegetable practically destroyed ; the other half much less injured, and beyond this another Datcb equally damaged with the first mentioned. Over large'' spaces, as in different parts of the town, the irregularity of too hailfnll was alao great. The nortb-east corner of the old borough aDpeared to have been particularly hard bit. Several yearp ago during one of the Easter floods the Manawatu River cut a straight passage across the bar, previous to which it had flowed into the sea fully two miles further north, a lagoon in the mud flats now marking the coarse of the old northern channel. At present when the question of whirf extension to IToxton and river improvement is a question that is causing some attention in Palmeraton, if not iu Foxton, it is inter* •sting to learn from Captain Hall, pilot at the Heads, that the river is fast making a southern courge for itself to the sea, the channel in the river also having a southern tendency.— Exchange,