DAMAGE BY LIGHTNING.

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 3 July 1899, Page 6

DAMAGE BY LIGHTNING.

[uy tklkqrapu — nikss association.] Thames, This Day. An exceptionally heavy thunderstorm passed over this district, yesterday afternoon. Trees were struck by lightning in the Kopu and Puriri districts, to tho south of the Thames borough. The tclepbono oilice wire at Kopu \va? fused, and tbo bitilding set on ii ro. Tbo blaze, however, was promptly extinguished

Mr. Hanlon, of Dunedin, who is defending Joseph Myers in the case now before the Supreme Court, will represent iho Government beforo the Marino Scandal Commission. •It- i* understood that Mr. f hos. Higgie has decided to contest tbo Waiigtuun sent in the Liberal interest against Mr. Curson, bo having been naked to come forward. The Tlwosophicril bociuty's room was too Hinall for the audience which assembled yesterday afternoon to hear Miss Lilian ledger's lecture on "Jesus of Nu/.uvctk nnd the Christ.' 1 Miss ledger, who pomessos both scholarship and oratorical power, xpokc eloquently for over an hour upon the man Jesus, " through whom and in whom worked the Chiist— -the lovo aspect of tho Deity." In our \.ibt ivuo allusion was made to " tho Jive «'hmgos of theft against Joseph Myers." To tiavc beon correctly stated •fhrgery" uhoulU havo been wiitlon, )iot " thetU * Mr. I. W. Raymond, of Wyndhnin, lms Announced himself an a candidate for the MutJiura scat in tho Oppo> ition interest. The reading room and tho circulating brunch of the Public Library, which have boe.ii closed for a week for tho purpose of enabling Iho books (8000 in number) and tha tit tings to bu cleaned und new shelving erected, weio ro-nrenod yesterday nftornoon. The baolcu in the reference' library are now being overhauled, and will probably not be uvailnblo to tho public until tho end of the week ' The third of tho series of popular concerto in the Victoria Hull, Newtoivn, will bo given to-morrow evening. An entire chango of programme is promised. ' v M> Arthuv Hume (a bou of Lieutenant Colonel Mumc), who* served hi<i niiproniiccsinp a.'. .Messrs. D. Robertbon nnuCo.'s ioundry in Wellington, hns passed tho ex .itmiuition .vhich until tea him to rank us .mi assistant- engineer in the Koyal Naval Uoserve. Ho is now third engineer oi «h« Bnluwayo, v Jinn now stcampr of 6000 urns, belonging lo th» Lund Line, which trades between London und the J<,as>c. Mr. \V. Monk-house i.s definitely announced to contest the Kg m out (.cat at tho general election. He will be tho rocogmsed candidate of the Opposition. David Thompson, plumber, miis this morning adjudged bankrupt on bin mvn petition. Tho total liabilities amount lo £69 3s 4d-A. nnd T. Burl, £20 ; Wellington Loan Co., £19; liullingcr Hios., .€lO, being the chief creditors. The nssots pro nil. Tho first meeting of urcditors is to bo held next Monday morning. Tho quahlios of T hroo Crown Cigarottos aro roc I or th by Messrs. G. T. Witt & Co. in another column. Yankeo Cork-tipped Cigarottos aro deal with by' Messrs. Thomson, Lewis & Co. in auothor part of this issuo. 0 Smith announcoß that hie great end. of Benson nnlq is now on. The opportunity to got bargains in this tale will bo exceptional, as lr.to purchasos from Homo and joti linos' nought ''locally aro only juat opened. Thuso goods aro all new and faahionablo, but will ho included in th-'a groat salo. You aro advised to shop early to buvo tho crush. Bargains for everyone -Advt.