A BRILLIANT METEOR.
■' » — (BT TELEGRAFII—SPECIAL • CORRESPONDENT.) ' , Auckland, January 14. A meteor of considerable proportions ap« peaired in tho sky Just over tlio city at about ten o'clock'last night, arid burst' with great brilliancy, lighting up tlio country for 'miles around." Tho bursting iyas followed by two very "(pud "reports winch resuniblod thunder. Many of thpso'who did not sep tho meteor itself, but saw thp flasfraiid heard the.subsequent reports, wero quite alarmed,-, and put forward varipus interesting theories as to tlio cause. Olio of tlieso was that, perhaps, tho flash was"iluo to a combination ot searchlights in the harbour, arid another that ; the aftir explosions iyero really tho reports pf guns fired by the volunteers, who are'in camp at Fort Tak'apuna. It is not improbabjq, suggests tlib " Herald," that' there wero ethers who thought Tesla was cither receiving a belated Jfew Year's message froni Mars, or sending " one thither with thp 800.000,000 horserpower apparatus recently referred to in tlio cables.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 6
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159A BRILLIANT METEOR. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 6
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