A NE\f WEATHER PROPHET.
TO Tfß XDITOB <W TBB fMSS. Sir,—Refining to your paragraph in your issue of October 7th, the prophet certainly wae right ai to the weather here lost night and to-day. Last eveiang the barometer began to fall, and the air Was close and warm. Before midnight lie most terrific thunderstorm broke over freymonth. Peal after peal, crash after easb of thunder, which shook the houses; the whole country lit up with the blaze of the lightning. The rain came down in torrents, and every now aid then a rush of hail came on the etotm The thunder did not cease till after 6a. and the gale is still blowing in fnll fore* The Grey river is running yellow and tarbid, carrying snags and logs on the broldn surge of ita central current. As I write Aβ sun is trying to get through the clouds.—Yours, etc., OBSERVER. Qreymouti, October 12th.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10483, 23 October 1899, Page 2
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