RED RAIN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 November 1929, Page 5

RED RAIN.

PECULIAR PHENOMENON IN MARLBOROUGH.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Bay. Yesterday Blenheim was deluged with red rain, a curious phenomenon which made itself;; evident by tinting such delicate flowers as arum lilies a delicate pink, leaving a rust like deposit upon foliage plants, on windows, motor cars and along the top of fence rails. In one case a Earnham lady who left the week’s washing on the line,* found it so streaked with red that the various articles will have to be washed again. Some months ago the appearance of red ram in Blenheim and other parts of the Dominion was attributed to dust storms iii Australia, the theory being put forward that great clouds of red dust had been blown across the Tasman Sea at a high altitude, to fall over New Zealand. It is considered by some people that yesterday’s phenomenon might be accounted for by the extraordinary electrical ‘disturbances which ushered in the dawn. The theory is advanced that a meteor or thunderbdlt burst over Blenheim, tilling the sky with minute particles of red dust which later drifted to earth with the rain.