A VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM
Melbourne, this day
A violent fchunderstorra was exporieiicod at Clungs. It unroofed many buildings. Immense hailstones riddled all the exposed windows iv town, and great damage was done to the fruib industry.
Mr Tucker has been re-elected Mayor of Adelaide. A magnificenb floral fete number of the "Graphic" will bo published this \reek, containing a very larfrccol'ection of pictures of the Auckland fSbe «t Ellorslio losb Saturday, and a'.eo of the New Plymouth fete. The "tJrapbio" had several photographers working for it on these occasion*, aud tho result is that photon of all the prize winners wero secured for tho journal, which will be iasueei on Friday this week instead of today, as usual. This delay has bosn unavoidable, in view of a general deaire ex- j pressed that a special number of this popular weekly, devoted to the fete, should be issued. Mr Richard Arthur, auctioneer, hold a property sale at> his mart to-day, when i several freehold properties were disposed of. A kouso in Hepburn-street, with aboub half an cere of ground, was B©ld for £300. A two-storey house in Parnell went for £250, and a cattago ab Birkenhead, with au acre and a-half of land attached, realised £100. Several other properties wero oOered, but tho bids failed to reach the reserve price. Constable Risb, of Whitiansra, wires that a Maori warned Graham, loft Mercury Island for Kuaofeunu on November 21»to, and has not fiincG been heard of. Ib ia supposed that Graham has been drowned.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 286, 2 December 1896, Page 5
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251A VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 286, 2 December 1896, Page 5
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