Tho severe telectrical disturbances last week caused considerable alarm at Dipton. On Mr Stewart's farm the lightning fui'-> rowed the ground in the direction of a dog kennel. The current was evidently attracted by the chain attached to the dog, Tt killed the animal—a valuable one—and destroyed the kennel. Mr Stewart had lust tied tho dog up about five minutes before the lightning struck dog and kennel. The spread of blackberry in flax swampg is causing some uneasiness as to the future of the hemp industry (reports the Auckland Star). Tn some places tho blackberry is now so bad in tho swamps that the flaxcutters refuse to go in to cut tho flax leaf for the mills.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3333, 30 January 1918, Page 45
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