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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 258, 9 February 1889, Page 3

A correspondent writes of a remarkably heavy shower that fell at Majura, a few miles south-west from Miohelago, on the Cooma railway line, Australia :—<* I was standing on the verandah, which was provided with guttering of the ordinary size, but notwithstanding what the guttering Carried off, there was a sheet of water falling off the roof without a break in it, and by it the air was so effectively enclosed that I felt nearly suffocated. The heavy part of the shower lasted only 15 minutes, and it was all over in less than 8Q minutes, but during this short time 2,25 inches rain fell. It caused a most extraordinary flood in the creeks, and I saw large trees and all sorts of dtbris, together with some of my sheep, carried away. ” The storm seems to have travelled north, or towards Goulburn, for, at the southern end of Lake George, Mr Glover says, 1.59 inches rain fell in 30 minutes, and at the northern end of the lake Mr Murray describes this Storm as very heavy. Continued thunder and vivid lighting lit up the whole sky with one continual blaze of light. During the storm very heavy hail fell, the hailstones being from the size of • pistol ball to almost jM.W’f l ' • W ,a ths drlft ‘ h * “ C 1 “ 9