364 E. DU FAUR. 
I have already shown its severe character at H (Gilroys); at N 
to O, (Vindin and others to Sulman’s) it was even more so— 
gardens ploughed up, young trees destroyed, and at one house, 
(Capt. Bird’s) about twenty roofing tiles and fifteen windows were 
smashed ; at P (Porter’s orchard), Q (M. Bourke), 7’ (Reilley) the 
fruit trees suffered very severely;! at Z (Foster), within sight of 
the road along which I had driven immediately after the storm, 
and found it to be outside its limits, the hail lay three feet deep 
in some places, and the fruit crop—plums—was entirely destroyed, 
and trees injured to such an extent that Mrs. Foster considers 
herself ruined. As previously stated, the main storm extended 
no further in that north-east direction, only ordinary hail at 
King’s, Reilley’s, and King junr.—c, d and e—and none at all at 
J (Road Camp), and as there was also none at / (Phil. Richard- 
son’s), it can only have passed along a narrow strip of unoccupied 
country between those properties or have come to an end ; from 
my enquiries I am inclined to believe the latter alternative. 
The orchards all through Irishtown generally suffered severely, 
but unequally; atc (S. King) no damage was sustained, but at 
g (Adams) the hail was very severe. I will return to this district 
later on, 
Again starting from Turramurra, the land to the southward of 
the railway from G (Adams) to R (Cornwell) is mostly unoccupied; 
we had seen on the evening of the 17th at intervals between the 
cuttings, that it was all deeply covered with hail. At & (H. Corn- 
well) on the northern side of the railway, and at Mrs. Cornwell’s 
on the southern, we again meet with evidence that they were 
subjected to the fullest force of the storm; a large vineyard in 
full leaf, was stripped of three-fourths of its foliage, fruit trees 
not only suffered in loss of leaves and fruit, but their bark was 
split in all directions ; and all the windows in both houses exposed 
to the west were broken; the course of the storm here was unmis- 
takeably from due west to east. At S (M. Porter) an orchard of 
1 At T the hail perforated corrugated iron. i 
