HEAVY WEATHER.
GREAT DAMAGE. . / FOOTBALL MATCHES STOPPED. BY TELEGRAPH —PItESS AS^OCrATION^COPTRtQIIT. ! London, February 23. Gales in tho Midlands, North-west .of. England, and Ireland, accompanied by terrific hail, stopped hundreds' of football matches; Throo grandstands "wofo unroofed. "The' market hall at Stockport was wrecked. A marqueo, in which wero 400 children, collapsed at Stratford.' / All wero rescued. Tho damage done by the storm is estimated at several hundred thousand pouWls sterling., FLOODS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. ROOFS ONLY SHOWING. (Rec. Feb. 24, 10.9 p.m.) Sydney, 24. Tho low-lying country round Nowcastle is inundated. Only the roofs of the houses aro showing in certain Jocalities. Railway traffic is impeded, throwing numbers of mines idlo. '.... - . ' Stock has been removed from the farms lying along the Hunter "River to tho high-, lands. , Nino inches of rain, fell, at'Maitland, lowlying lands being flooded.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 130, 25 February 1908, Page 7
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138HEAVY WEATHER. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 130, 25 February 1908, Page 7
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