362 E. DU FAUR. 
After a few words with the station master, and learning from 
my son that the fall had been only slight at my own place ‘ Pibrae,’ 
about forty-five chains in a direct line, north-west by north from 
the station, I started to drive by the Eastern Road, due north, 
to ascertain the course of the storm. At a few chains from the 
railway gates the hailstones were lying over two feet deep against 
the eastern fence, and the ditch water had cut a tunnel through 
the deposit leaving for some yards an ice bridge over it. The 
owner of adjoining orchard, P. Gilroy, an old resident, had never 
seen anything like it, and would not readily believe my account 
of what I considered to have been a more severe one in Sydney 
some thirty years ago. I had gone but a few chains further north 
when all signs of severe hail ceased. On the first opportunity, at 
three-quarters of a mile from the station, I turned to east, and 
then north-east, along the “ Kuring-gai Chase ” road, and met 
with only slight signs of hail, while the ground to my right hand, 
at no great distance, still showed white with it through the timber; 
at one and three-quarter miles, an orchardist (King junr.) had 
had slight hail; and at three miles a road camp had none. 
Returning home I found there had been a severe rain storm with 
wind, but no hail of any consequence, rain gauge showing “47. 
During the next day I made full enquiries from fellow passenger 
and on the Saturday I again drove round to further prosecute the 
Same. From the press and private sources I learned that the 
" storm had been very severe at Seven Hills and Baulkham Hills, 
and through the station master at Hornsby Junction I ascertained 
that its centre had crossed the Great Northern Railway near 
Carlingford, and that at Beecroft it had not been severe. 
Accompanying tracing shows course from Seven Hills to Car- 
lingford as almost west to east, (from W. 10° S. to E. 10° N.), with 
Baulkham Hills inline. From Carlingford to Turramurra, which 
undoubtedly received the fullest force of the storm, (or of a storm 
as will be further explained), the direct course is B. 52° N. or 42° 
to the north of course as determined above—from Seven Hills to 
Carlingford—: the intervening country, three miles fifty chains in 
