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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 76412, 13 January 1903, Page 2

REMOUNTS.

• SUITABILITY OF ITEW ZEAEA#D ? HOUSES. ; -' .. • Per Press Association. „ J '"' : \ ' WELLINGTON, January' 1% i Th 6 Imperial Government is so satisfied with, the' manner. in which, ifie/ • New Zealand- horses siood' the severe J tests in South Africa that they; have - • determined to continue to purchase x torses in New Zealand for use in the r Transvaal and Orangia. • Officers will . shortly arrive , in the. colony^ m z . connection with the inspection andpurchase of remounts.' . <*-*■* , It is stated, that in point of p*fp& , ■New ' Zealand horses compare 1 more | than favourably with the English. I **—^^*— *' m — *"*^"f'« j . ■, ( riIKJfOMENAL H.UL STORM, I - a „ Per Press Association. \ OHRISTCHDECH, January IJJ; ' j News has been received of a pibV^ t noinenal hail storm at Cheviot on" I Saturday evening. r Many of the hailstones are said, to >■ be almost the size of" hen's eggs, and ' l along the tracks of the storm, whioh i did not cover a wide area, the cropß 1 are devastated. • - " .• . - • Scores' of windows were smashed/ i corrugated iron roofs dented, and, in '■> some cases, perforated. " — %