DELUGE OF RED RAIN

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 130, 28 November 1929, Page 11

DELUGE OF RED RAIN

FxiNTASTIC THEORY

- (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Yesterday Blenheim was deluged with a red rain. This phenomenon made itself evident liy tinting such delicate flowers as arum lilies a delicate pink and leaving a rust-like deposit upon foliage plants, on the windows of motorcars, and along the top of fence rails. In one case a Farnham. lady, who left, a week's washing on tho line, found it so streaked with red that tho various articles will have to bo washed again.

Some months ago the appearance of a red rain in Blenheim and other parts of the Dominion was attributed to dust storms in Australia. The theory put forw.ard was that great clouds of red dust, which had been blown across the Tasman Sea at a high altitude, had fallen over New Zealand.

It is considered by some people that yesterday's phenomenon might be accounted for by the extraordinary electrical disturbance which ushered in tho dawn. The theory is advanced that a meteor or thunderbolt burst over Blenheim, filling the sky with minute particles of red dust which later drifted to earth with the rain.