NOTABLE HAILSTORM OF 17 NOVEMBER, 1896. 365 
large extent, great havoc took place; the owner stated that any 
one might have his apricot crop for £4, which he had valued half 
an hour previously at £400. Mr. Henry Cornwell, an old resident 
who has very greatly assisted me in my enquiries, subsequently 
went a considerable distance into the bush at the back of Mrs. 
Cornwell’s and M. Porter’s, and reports finding full evidence of 
the storm throughout. I have therefore tinted the whole of that 
country as having been under its severest influence. Continuing 
along the southern side of the railway, we find that at the church 
the hail was slight only, and at Mrs. Pockley’s there was none ; 
but at J. Brown’s and Cook’s orchards, on the opposite side, it was 
severe, the latter orchard is stated to be completely ruined ; this 
defines the southern limit of the second division of the storm 
bearing almost due west and east as above mentioned. 
As to its northern limit and its extension easterly, I am much 
indebted to Mr. C. B. Bradford, residing at U for information 
collected. Still excluding Irishtown for the present, the storm 
was at its height over all the space between the broken red lines 
on tracing, although I have only tinted those properties respecting 
which direct information was obtained. The country being very 
broken will probably account for effects not having been uniform, 
some properties suffered much more than others. At U (Bradford) 
the hailstorm was severe, but at Won the opposite side of the 
telegraph road and ridge it was worse, roofing slates being broken. 
It was specially severe at McKeown’s, C. McIntosh’s, Smart’s, 
Connolley’s, the small farms (Hughes and others), and at « W. 
Reid’s former residence, where the roof tiles were broken ; thence 
it entered the country leading down to Middle Harbour, which 
is unknown to us, and I believe but little occupied. This northern 
limit appears to be absolutely defined by the information that but 
slight hail fell at i (Etherington), and none as before mentioned 
at h (P. Richardson). 
Returning to the question of the previous exclusion of the 
Orchard district known as Irishtown,(which suffered very severely), 
from the limits of the greatest intensity of what I venture to 
