A WEEK OF STORM.
BIX DAYS OF THUNDER AND ' RAIK. Residents in Otago who iiavo been oomMaining about the wathor wo have lately boon experiencing' my perhaps bo reconciled to their conditions when thpy read tho following record of a week's weather— from Juno sto June 11—in tho Midlands and South of Emrland:— ilonday.—Thunderstorms in Sussex MidHants, Wiltshire, Somerset, and Gloucester. Haiti from 100 to 209 tons per acre. Villa at Pafcham, near Brighton, burned. Crew of Mackerel boat rendered unconscious. Bullock killed by lightning at Lewes; horse at Andovcr; sheep at Whatlington. liicsday—Storm in South London. Nureemaid killed: at Chislehivrst under a tree. Two houses damaged at Windsor. Tiro horses killed at Hungerford. llouso struck at Evesham. and horse killed in the etnblo. • Farm hand killed at Badminton. FaT.n building burned at Milfondon-Sea. Ball of firo foil at Wembley SUifcion. (Wednesday.—House struck at West Ealing, ijautidry 6et. on firo at Glower. ■War balloon factory at Aldorshofc set on tire. Parish church at Worpjeedon flooded, Marss killed at Anwmgfiold, Norfolk. House and simp struck at Ileanor, Nottingham ; Rcdnal, Worcester; Halifax; Iluddersfiold. trhuraday.—Storm at Maidenhead and Henley. House struck at Reading. Six cows killed at Tilehuist. Shop struck ot Homol Hcmpsled. Severn damage to property and stock at Dowsbury. Unitarian chapel struck at Bradford. Friday.—St, Peter's uhurch, Canterbury, struck. Barn near Rochford, Essex, burned. . Floods at Bristol ' Saturday.—Thunderstorm in .Berkshire. 1 Eight cows killed at Faringdon., Floods in the Mendips.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14898, 29 July 1910, Page 7
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239A WEEK OF STORM. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14898, 29 July 1910, Page 7
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