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NEW SOUTH VALES.'
PHENOMENAL WEATHER. HEAVY EALLS OF SNOW.
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
INTERRUPTED.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC SUSPENDED.
STDNET, June 23.
Yesterday was almost the record oeld day j for thia oolony. Early in the morning Bnow atorma passée; over the mountain towns, and
where there was not Bnow a piercing j wind, accompanied by heavy rain, ragi ~
Almost the first result of tbe storm, which, accsrding to the Government Astronomer, waa a oyolonio disturbance, was to lay many of the telegraph poles on the Southern and Western routes. Communication was thus cat off with Melbourne and Adelaide. Murrumburrah baB reported a snowstorm lasting two or three hours and the heaviest known in the district. Parkes bas reported a similar experience. Bowral, Goulburn, Mossvale, Robertson, Katoomba, Mount Victoria, Grenfell, Bookleg, Murramunda, Hill End, ana Cootamundra, have reported falls varying from five to nine inohes. Lawson has reported one of the heavieat falls ever experienoed there. The drifts of snow in places there are said to have been 3ft. and 4ft. deep, while the railway' lines for nearly two miles have been bnried under the snow, and the engines found it impossible to make progress oven with the sweepers in
front.
Persons asserted that Bnow aotnally fell in
Sydney during the day. Snow did once fall j in Sydney, bnt that was in Jnne, 1836.
Much damage has been done in various
country towns to buildings and ornamental |
trees by the weigh* of the snow.
On Sonth Coast a violent storm raged, and
shipping operations were completely inter- j rupted. '