NOTABLE HAILSTORM OF 17 NOVEMBER, 1896. 363 
a direct line, is almost entirely uninhabited, through which runs 
the upper part of the Lane Cove River, three hundred feet below 
Carlingford and over five hundred feet below Turramurra. 
In my conversation with the station master at Turramurra, 
who appears to have watched the storm with considerable care, 
he volunteered the information that it came from the south-west, 
but when it reached his station it seemed to go all ways: at first 
it was densest as it passed on the north-west side of his office, 
going north-east, with blue sky showing above it; then on the 
south-east of his office going east, again with blue sky above it ; 
and I have little doubt that the further evidence which will be 
_ brought forward, will prove that at about this part the storm 
divided, one centre of intensity going a little to the north of 
‘north-east and probably blowing itself out, (or the hail turning to 
rain), in less than two miles ; the other centre of intensity taking 
an easterly course of greater width. As to how far it extended, 
and at what point it crossed Middle Harbour Creek, whether as 
ahailstorm or rainstorm, I am not ina position to form any 
opinion, my tracing shows that at two miles east of Turramurra 
it was still very severe. 
Returning now to Turramurra, my tracing locates the points 
of greatest intensity, on reliable evidence personally obtained, 
these being coloured pink and lettered.1_ After crossing Lane 
Cove Valley, and emerging from uninhabited lands, it first struck 
A and B (Herbert Cunningham and McCullock), virtually wreck-_ 
ing their gardens and destroying glass houses etc., at @ (Adams) 
the hailstones were stated to be piled seven feet deep at the bottom 
_ Of the paddock, and lying generally from one to two feet deep all 
Over the property, but a few chains to the north-west of A, at C 
and D, (Elwyns and Blytheswood), it was much less severe, and 
at Langtree’s at junction of Fox Ground road it was trifling. On 
the opposite side of the railway at a (Gerards) it was trifling ; at 
F, F and b, (Coffee. Du Faur, and T. Reid), the same. 
1 Places experiencing only slight or ordinary hail are shown by ©, and 
those were there was none by O. 
