GENERAL NEWS.
SHATTERED BY LIGHTNING.
The Manukau correspondent of the Manawat u Times writes : — During a terrific thunderstorm on Sunday morning the lightning struck a large totara tree about four chains from the Kuku sawmill. The tree was shattered to pieces, and a large piece went through the roof of a house twenty yards away, within eight feet of where Mr Walter Whiley was sleeping. Another very big piece was driven through a fence, and landed between the office and another small building, where one of the men was in bed. Other pieces were sent in all directions. The barrel of the tree was.- about forty feet, and pieces of it were driven eighty yards from it.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5462, 14 January 1896, Page 3
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117GENERAL NEWS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5462, 14 January 1896, Page 3
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