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Nelson Evening Mail, 31 July 1916, Page 1

WANTED. iNTED a smart Boy to learn ' the Hair Dressing Trad*. Apply H. Hart, Bridge street. TANTED Known. —Herbert M. / Taylor, Watchmaker, Stoke, will •visit Richmond district on Wednesday, August 2nd. Messages may be left at W. R. Clay's and F. Dusty's Stores. •RS Steiniman, Medical and Business Clairvoyante. Interviews daily 10-8 .p.m. 52 Halifax street, near P.O. Deavy shortly. ANTED by experienced person, ' position as Housekeeper. Apply "Capable," Mail Office. "ANTED, Gardening or land-shde clearing by the day.—G. Gallon, 104 Waimea str-eet, 'phone 156. ANTED, Young Girl to assist with housework. Apply Mrs Gt. V. Mercer, Examiner street. 'ANTED—Bush fellers, for particulars, apply H. and! I*. Inwoodi Pangatotara. ANTED, Yoa at Hustle Book Sale —half price, books exchanged, gramophone and records cheap.—Bar-. gain Book Shop, Bridge-st, opp Fakey's.

A meteorite, or some similar manifestation of the majesty of the heavens, was observed on Sunday night, at, about 7 o'clock oy "many residents of Oamava (says the Mail). A short flash, so vivid as to resemble the near explosion of a huge quantity of magnesium powder, oc-curi-ed directly ovei;head, rendering every detail of the landscape as clear as at noonday, and almost blinding those who looked at it. The night -was clear a-nd starry, and' the loud 1 rumbling crash which followed the phenomenon by a full halfminutes came as an even greater surprise than the flash. The theory has been advanced that the flash was caused by the. combustion of the meteorite upon entering the earth's atmosphere, and the crash hy its immediate explosion. This is probably the case, as tJhe flash ended in a marvellously brilliant burst of star's.