Show HARD RAIN IN I 1 DELTA tuesday afternoon at about sup per time a hard rain occurred in n delta that was very welcome it had been excessively hot and sultry with clouds gathering and when the rain came it was hard in big drops and soon made up quite a lot of water in the streets the downpour was more or less local as there was none west and none as tar far north as sutherland it laid the dust well in town during the storm there was con sid erable lightning tor for us with loud and sharp thunder one bolt of it hitting the power line as elsewhere given A can in our yard showed that the local fall was about two inches at that place |