A FIREBALL.
By Telegraph —Press Association,
Christchurch, last night. At 11.50 a.m. yesterday a fireball fell on a farm at Ohoka. For a time it caused consternation. Thero was distinct smell of hair or wool singeing, with a tracei of sulphur fumes, but any attempt to discover the track of tho ball was fruitless. It was accompanied by a loud sound as of groat rushing wind. Those who saw it say tho light was as dazzling as that of the sun. , , t . , . Blonheim, last night. Tho fireball which fell at Ohoka yesterday was aeon by a settler at Onamatutu. Ho describes it as a body equal to the sun iu brightness, and falling across tho sky in a westerly direction. It was pearshaped, except that the small end tapered to a point and it was uppermost. The ball was travelling at an enormous rate, and seemed to reach tho horizon in two or three seconds.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 806, 22 January 1903, Page 3
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