A correspondent of the Natal Mercury states that a terrible thunderstorm passed over several districts in South' Africa, early in January. So far as was then known, seventeen natives had been Wiled by huge hailstones, and five by lightning. . As many natives were out on tho veldt, it is believed that the death roll is really much greater,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9452, 27 February 1911, Page 2
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