Heavy Weather Elsewhere.
[By Telegraph.] (Per Pruss Association.) Wellington, This day. One of the heavest hail-stormes experienced here in the history of the observatory authorities fell between one and two this morning. The tem-. perature. in the shade for to-day* s reading was 31, which is one degree lower than the lowest ever recorded—viz., in 1867. The grass temperature was 21, the lowest being 20 ill 1891. The storm lasted about twenty minutes, then cleared, and to-day is beautifully line aud bright. Westport, This day. The most severe spell of bad weather and high seas for six years past has been experienced on the West Coast since Wednesday last, but there are signs of it clearing to-day. The steamers had great difficulty in getting down the coast and they report the worst passages on record. The Corinna and Hawea, which have been barbound for a week, ought to get out this afternoon. Heavy snow fell at Denniston and Coalbrookdale yesterday and there was a light fall in Westport, about the third only on record.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 377, 20 July 1897, Page 2
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