EXPERIENCES ELSEWHERE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9295, 18 February 1907, Page 5

EXPERIENCES ELSEWHERE.

[press association 1

WELLINGTON, February 16. '

Shortly after midnight one of the most violent thunderstorms which has visited tEe city for years was experienced 1 . The peals of ttauTwleT weae exceptionally loud, aaidl the lightning veiry vivid, while the rain came down in .torrents.

At 1.40 a.m. there was a vicious flash of lightning, a fact whioh was vividly impressed on the operators in the Electrical Syndicate's engine house. The shock pulled up the plant like a short circuit, amd passed off. The immediate result was the extinction of all the electric lights in the city, but the illumination revived itself automatioally. At South Karori, however, the effect was more marked.' There, says MrMabin, manager for the company, a bare maim runs through the district, and ait seems that the lightning played on to that main. The public lights were put out, and private lamps weTe .also given over to- darkness. I