ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCE.
DAMAGE DONE. AUCKLAND, 2nd May. : A flash of lightning, followed by a very heavy peal of thunder, was .experienced in Clcvedon on Tuesday night. At 'the local post office a telephone instrument was struck, ihe* wires fused, and the box, with its contents, smashed to iitomG, and hurled across the room, striking' the wall an, the Opposite side, and falling into a chair. The wall was blackened, and holes were burned in telegraph forms. Mr. .Robertson, storekeeper, was standing beside- his instrument when ho was startled by a flash some 1 feet long.coming from the month of tho receiver, aud followed by a report like a pistol-shot, sudiciently loud to alarm -the neighbours. A tall pine on Mr. George Alexander's property utWT tho road was btruck, aud split in pieces. Auoth'.-r tall pine tree near Olevedon .Wharf s'as'straUit a-ud
stripped of bark and branches. One of the large telegraph posts was. also struck. The wires wero broken and fused, and the post itself broken down. The trees were blazing, but the heavy downpour of rain which immediately followed the clap extinguished them speedily. Strange to say, the main telephone from Clevedon to Papakura was untouched.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 105, 3 May 1912, Page 5
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197ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 105, 3 May 1912, Page 5
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