A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM.
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AM) LOSS OK 1 JFK. (i'-r I'iyxh A-wri'il:•»*.—' "i.i.'i'i'i'it.) (Received Nov. 27, 11 a.m.) Melbourne, This day. The grout heat experienced throughout the colony during tho past five days gave way to a general rainfall. During the thunderstorm the Weslevan parsonage was struck by lightning and considerably damaged, while the inmates had a narrow escape. At Kanavin a farmer named Foote was getting through a wire fence and as he grasped the wire he was struck dead by lighting.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 182, 27 November 1896, Page 3
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85A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM. Hastings Standard, Issue 182, 27 November 1896, Page 3
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