The Storm.
MUCH DAMAGE DONE. Oamaku, December G. Yesterday's storm turns out to hwe been local. Consequently the crops escaped. The damage was confined mainly to the town. Almost every pane of glass in the skylights was smashed to atoms, and trees were threshed to tatters, while fruit, vegetables, and flowers were all ruined. Bulleid and Co, drapers, estimate their loss at £1000: their extensive skylights being all broken and the stock damaged greatly by water. Many others suffer heavy loss. Many of the hailstones that fell were from five to eight inches in circumference, in some cases piercing the corrugated iron roofs. The sea was churned ,o foam by the falling stones and could be discerned by onlookers half a mile away. The cattle and stock that were exposed were driven frantic, and are bruised and swollen. Some slight stock fatalities are reported. Dunedin, January 6. A terrific thunderstorm occurred at Arrowtown on Saturday. At Miller's Flat forked lighting destroyed all the fencing for half a mile, making deep trenches in the ground. An electric current struck the weather-boards of a house owned by Mr William Scoles, burning it up completely. There were no inmates at the time.
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Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 159, 10 January 1896, Page 3
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199The Storm. Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 159, 10 January 1896, Page 3
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