DISASTROUS HAILSTORM.
The most disastrous hailstorm ever experienced in the neighbourhood of Oamaru took place yesterday afternoon. It was preceded by a number of thunder peals, and then great blocks of ice fell, smashing down everything before them. Greenhouses were stripped cf their glass, windows were broken, and trees partially denuded of their leav.3. Tbe fruit crop is ruined, and it is a fortunate thing that the storm did not extend over the whole district, otherwise the crops would have suffered serious injury. The area affected ee.ms to have been limited to three or four miles outside the town ; but the information on this point is not yet of a definite description. Some of the pieces of ice measured 4'in round. Although the storm lasted only about twenty minutes, it left a trail of destruction unexampled in the history of the district.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9306, 6 January 1896, Page 5
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