DAMAGE BY LIGHTNING.
(Pee' United Press Association.)
Invercargill, August 27.
During a thunderstorm at Riverton on Wednesday night the house of, Mr C. L. Rickards was struck by lightning, which passed through the bedroom and destroyed the chimney. The fluid then took another direction, passed along the spouting of the house, down tlie water tank, and thence along three chains of barbed wire fence, the posts of which were shattered to pieces. Mr Rickards, who was in the act of hanging up a side of bacon to the roof, had a narrow escape, the lightning smashing the lamp within 2ft of him, and several boxes in the neighbourhood were broken and pictures thrown from the wall.
Auckland, August 27. During the thunderstorm yesterday the lightning fused the telegraph wires at Newmarket, and a thunderbolt fell on the Newmarket railway bridge as a train passed, alarming the passengors. About a ton of earth was displaced.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 7653, 28 August 1886, Page 2
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