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storm from the north-west which did no damage at all ; it came on 

 about 6 p. M. 



3. In Hajjur between 4 and 5 p. m. there was a dast-storm which 

 lasted about ten minutes accompanied by same rain and a little hail of 

 small size. There was no damage done. The wind was strong at first 

 and from the north, it then turned east and boxed the compass. 



4. InMowanathe storm occurred later and lasted from; about 8 

 to 10 P. M. The wind was strong at the beginning and at the end. 

 Several trees were uprooted and same houses unroofed, but no persons 

 were killed. In the uplands hail was small, about the size of a gram 

 seed, in the Ganges valley it was larger and did some damage to melons. 

 In no other tahsil was there any disturbance that day. 



APPENDIX II. 



(1.) Extracts from the Telegraphic and Correspondence Columns 

 OF THE Pioneer (Allahabad). 



Delhi, 1st May. 



A severe thunderstorm passed over the station ^this afternoon. 

 Two trees have been struck by lightning and there is no doubt that 

 other damage has been done, as several crashes have been heard. It 

 has been raining and blowing hard since 3 o'clock, and there was a 

 sharp and most destructive shower of hail between 3 and 4 o'clock 

 some of the stones being of extraordinary size. I picked up one as big 

 as a man's fist which weighed two and a quarter ounces. This I 

 fancy, decides the fate of our mango crop and our fruit prospects 

 generally. 



Since preparing the above for despatch I hear that a lad ao^ed four 

 who ran out during the hailstorm to pick up some of the st- 

 killed on the spot. 



As far as is known at present the hailstorm last evening would 

 appear to have been local in its effect, all the damage up to the present 

 being reported from the city and civil station of Delhi, and the western 

 suburbs of Sabzimandi and Paharganj. The storm seems to have 

 travelled m a south-easterly direction, for after passing over Delhi and 

 crossing the Jumna, it went on in the direction of Meerut and Buland- 

 shahr. 



Several persons are reported to have been killed during the storm, 



