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202 BYE-GONES. Sep 4, 1889. time trees were uprooted and stripped of their branches, haystacks were bodily displaced, houses were partially unroofed, and barns and outbuildings were demolished. The cyclone appears to have origiuated at Mr Sherwood's of Waterloo, where a number of plum and other trees were uprooted. It then went over the canal, past Bostock Hall, on to Whixall Hall, which suffered most. There Mr William Sutton, of Rose Cottage, Whixall, brother- in-law to Mr Darlington, the occupier of the hall, had a very narrow escape. He states that he was blown across a large yard just outside the hall, and a heavy stone crest, which was torn off the upper part of the hall, with some tiles, struck him on the side of the head. He was iust able to avoid it falling directly upon his head by a sudden movement, and he escaped with a deep cut over his ear. He is now confined to his room under medical treatment. Part of his property also suffered. Mr Darlington and his family saw from within great branches of trees torn off and carried away. Some part of a large beech tree was carried 150 yards, crashing up against the strong walls of the hall. A big dog kennel and dog went away in the wind a distance of some twenty yards. Orchards, gardens, cornfields, and the land around the hall, were strewn all over with branches, hay, straw, slates, and various missiles ; and Mr Darlington is at present unable to estimate his loss, which must be very con¬ siderable. A large farmstead half a mile from Whixall Hall, and occupied by Mr Fowles, was also ' greatly damaged, and it was there evident that the cyclone had a peculiar deviation in its course, for a range of outbuildings which might have been thought to be in the greatest danger remain as be¬ fore, while structures on the opposite side were swept away. Uprooted trees and branches and debris indicate clearly that the cyclone passed directly over several country residences,whose occu¬ pants were in indescribable dread of being carried away. The cyclone took a westerly course, about three and a half miles in length, and 150 yards in width, expending itself at Tilstock Park, four miles from Whitchurch. It firstappeared like a great white mass of vapour. An idea may be conceived of its tremendous force from the fact, which is stated by eyewitnesses, that portions of the trees and quan¬ tities of hay and straw were carried over the out¬ skirts of Whitchurch. Large numbers of people from various parts visited the district on Friday. A Canadian gentleman who happened to be on a visit to the district, and who has witnessed cyclones in America, declares that this is of a precisely similar description, though inferior in extent and velocity. Our Nescliff correspondent writes :—On Wednes¬ day, about 1 45 p.m., the inhabitants of this neigh¬ bourhood were alarmed by the extraordinary roaring noise accompanying a very dark and heavy cloud which was approaching from the direction of Mel- verley. Ifc passed over the Pentre, doing compara¬ tively little damage beyond scattering the fields with boughs of trees. It next passed over Mr John Green's at Wilcot, making the sheds and barns rattle, then down one of that gentleman's wheat fields, laying low all the mows m the line of direc¬ tion, which was about 70 yards wide, through a small coppice, lopping the top off most of the trees, and then made for Hopton, leaving the " Old Three Pigeons " on its right, and the Prill on the left. The first place to show signs that something very un¬ usual was happening was Mr Wilding's buildings, where the ridge tiles were all blown off, also the slates for nearly a yard on each side of the building. In a field to the left stood an ash tree, whose slender top, measuring about four yards in length, was snapped off and carried over the top of Hopton Hill. At the Quarry House 10 plum trees were uprooted, and an apple tree blown on to the roof of the next house, Mr Bowker's, making a great hole in the roof. Every garden in Hopton, between Nescliff Hill and Mrs Suckley's, was strewn all over with fallen apple trees, plum trees, walnut trees, and the branches of elm, oak, and ash trees, carried from trees in the hedges and fields. The cyclone now swept up the bare face of Hopton Hill, and, leaving untouched a distance of about fifty yards, descended with renewed force upon a coppice at the back of the hill belonging to Mr Lloyd, the Knolls, where between 100 and 150 trees, mostly larch, w ell grown, and measuring from one to three feet in circumference, were torn up by the roots. The last heard of it was at Queen's Court, between Little Ness and Ruyton-xi.-Towns, where more trees were blown down. Close by, Dr. Burrell and a lady in a trap were sheltering under an oak tree, when a bough came crashing down and smashed the shafts, besides doing other damage. In a most remarkable manner the occupants of the trap escaped witha fright and a shaking. A gentleman from Yorkshire, staying at Hopton, says the whole thing lasted only two or three minutes, and during that time the air was full of leaves, birds, and branches, all being whirled around, and finally disappearing over Hopton Hill. The direction was from south-west to north-east. Another correspondent writes :—On Wednesday afternoon, a cyclone passed through the neighbour¬ hoods of Hopton, near Nesscliff, and Valeswood, near Ruyton. It came on suddenly with a great roar, and appeared like a white vapour. At Mr Bowker's of Hopton it tore the boughs of several trees and scattered some of them a distance of about 30 yards. The cyclone passed from there to Hopton Hill, where it uprooted nearly 200 trees and tore the tops of many others. In several gardens near the hill it uprooted several fruit trees and tore the tops of others. The cyclone again passed on over the cliff in Valeswood, where several trees were uprooted, and again tore the tops of others. Dr. I Burrell and Mrs Pollard of Ruyton-XI-Towns were passing by Valeswood in a trap at the time, when a bough of a tree fell upon them, breaking the trap and slightly injuring Mrs Pollard, the doctor escaping un¬ hurt. The cyclone passed on to the New Mills, Ruyton, where it expended itself. It there carried a sheep trough about seven yards, and carried a door mat into the air a distance of about 30 feet. SEPTEMBER 4, 1889. NOTES. HA WARDEN.— Thisnoio notable place, because it has been the cherished home of Mr and Mrs I Gladstone for full fifty years of their married life, has had a history of its own for something like : fourteen hundred years, It is supposed to have