Remarkable Hailstorm.
« ICE STONES AS LARGE AS HENS' EGGS. SHYLIGHTS AND CONSERVATORIES RIDDLED. [PEB PEEBS ASSOCIATION.] Inveecakqill, This day. A terrific hailstorm waß experienced at Riverton yesterday, preceded by a tremendous thunderstorm. Ice stones, some as large as hens' eggrs, fell, the storm lasting ten minutes. Not a single skylight or conservatory escaped, nearly every pane of glass being completely riddled. The fruit and vegetables suffered severely, and a school boy named Miller waß blinded for a timo by lightning and was sent home. There were electrical disturbances in other parts of the district, but not severe, and the hailstorm was confined to Riverton.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6065, 4 February 1891, Page 3
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104Remarkable Hailstorm. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6065, 4 February 1891, Page 3
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