COLD SNAP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 10

COLD SNAP.

STORM IN CANTERBURY. DAMAGE DONE BY LIGHTNING. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Canterbury is experiencing rough weather. After a few heavy showers during Wednesday night the weather broke fine this morning, but. about midday a thunderstorm was experienced and heavy rain fell. This soon ceased but the weather broke again at 4 o’clock, and became bitterly cold. Rain and hail poured down, and snow covered [he Cashmere anu the Peninsula hills. As shearing is fairly general throughout 'the province the change NIII be bad on the newly-shorn flocks. At .ML Thomas during to-day's storm a Wellingtonia irce SOfr, high with a girth 26ft at the base, was struck by lightning and split from top to bottom, and absolutely torn to pieces. Large splinters wore hurled in all directions. Borne pieces were picked up 140 ft away. A ( Oxford five telephone poles wove shattered and several chains of fencing destroyed. Twelve chains of telephone wire vanished completely. In ime house the telephone was damaged and the side of the wall blackened. Hail and snow io a depth of three inches covered the ground. Though rain was required throughout Canterbury it could have done without a wintry visitation. The temperature in Christchurch at: 5 p.m. v. as lIS degrees.