THUNDERBOLT OR WHAT?

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 32, 6 August 1921, Page 6

THUNDERBOLT OR WHAT?

,;,Oii..the property.ofjMr;...E., Maxwell,' youth of Rahotu, in a five-aore paddock in which were running six pedigree Jersey cattle belonging to Mr. M. G. Maxwell, a strange occurrence took place, presumably during the thunderstorm on Monday night . (says the; Tarariaki Daily News). The paddock is an open level gra6s paddock, and towards the middle of it was found on Tuesday a hole.about 5 feet across, giving the appearance of having been blown out by explosives, much soil being thrown out_in a south-easterly direction; some to a'distahec of- a chain, and a hn-If. Erom the edge of the hole, extending to a distance of, half a chain towards tho south and south-east, run several peculiar branching 1 and very irregular zigzag tracks along the surface. Each branch end terminates with 1 a hole about tho thickness of h. Bhovel handle, all descending into the ground with' an outward; incline. Towards tho nprth-vvest a slightly raised rib of turf, l2;feet:iong, with one hole about the middlo and another at the end indicates the track of a discharge-that has passed along under the surface, The cattle were not injured.