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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 352, 31 December 1879, Page 2

lii October, a farmer aidiTs shepherd' were together 'in a fielt 1 near sownjn] Merionethshire, looking' after a large flock of sheep. Suddenly a peculiar rustling sound caused them to lift up their heads, when to their great astonishment they beheld the stocks and sheavW" in an adjoining field being whirledj&init by some invisible agency. of the destroyer appeared to be directed to where the flock:of sheep were quietly grazing, pi; a rushing sound #| proved to be a : whirlwind : was"upon tjiefej and in a few seconds, to the alarni'itid consternation of the*farmer and hiS man', 1 it scattered the flock of sheep about like chaff, One of the sheep was lifted by thj force of: the! whirlwind-j a'. iremeftdoiis height into the ajr, dead, The-wind passed /rtely away in a westerly direction withoirt further damage. /Ihere'isno record 'of, neither' do the.oldest inhabitants' remember, bo singular an occurrence in this 1, part of th'e!'Principality of Wales. / ,•!•;■::,■<..•.: —'"