WETHERSTONES
June 30. — Most of last week was damp and foggy, with some S.E. and S.W. showers. There was a drizzling rain all Friday, which has helped the miners, who were getting short of water. The barometer last Thursday morning was low — 29.04, rising; this morning it is 29.82. There was a hard frost on Sunday, the thermometer at S a.m. being at 26deg. At night there were som« light showers. The highest reading was 55deg at noon of June •28.
Trying the Electric Light. — The Golden Rise — having near finished the paddock — were only working during daylight during the last two or three days of last week. Mr WakeSeld, of the Happy Valley dredge, therefore got permission to take Lheir electric light plant to Lawrence and erect it there for n few nights. Th-e power was got from Browne Bios.' engine in the chaffhouse, wires being laid on to the engine. On Monday night, June 23, the elec-' trie light was working badly, flickering up and down, sometimes bright and sometimes nearly out. Before midnight it went out altogether, there being something wrong with the brushes. It is recoided that the man who was on the shift got a lighted candle to light the electric light again. Of course he was an Irishman.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2520, 2 July 1902, Page 39
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