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HAIL STORM AT OHAUPO,

An extraordinary Inil storm passed over Mr S. Sleele's place on Sunday, at one o'clook, trafelling from west to east, and passing up the south bank of th© W-iikuto, past Pukenmu, Walker's Gully, and on to Cambridge, leaving the country a sheet of white for mile-, and driving cattle and horses in front of it for •belter. Some hail-stones mtrfsured firt eighths of an inch through, seveneighths of an inch wide, with a spiked frill all round in the shape of a atar, extreme width one inch and a quarter to one inch and three quarters. One piece of » kidney shape, measuruig two inche->, was picked up by a little boy. Etch stone was composed of about twenty email ones frozen together, and in many instances they completely buried themselrei iv the ground. — Coa EEBPOKDENT.

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Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 511, 28 August 1875, Page 2

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HAIL STORM AT OHAUPO, Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 511, 28 August 1875, Page 2

HAIL STORM AT OHAUPO, Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 511, 28 August 1875, Page 2

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