FIGHT OF TERROR.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17241, 20 March 1918, Page 6

FIGHT OF TERROR.

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OTHER REPORTS

' FEILDING, March 19. | / Feilding is completely euveloped in j ' 6mcke and uncanny darkness. All lights j I-* are being used indoors, and motor-cars j 'i are using headlights. The sun is not ; ■fi visible at all. The smoke is evidently j >.l from bush fiTes, though not in this dioi trict. A tremendous gale is blowing. |", ' PALMERSTON N., March 19. U The effect of fne smoke, eruption. M*an<f-Titrelr fires had unusual results in Palmerston. The town is in semi-dark- | ness. All businesses are lighted by gas 3 candles, or lamps, reminiscent of conditions 35 years ago, when biish fires ex.tended for miles about Palmerstou this time of the year. Some excitement prevails, and " crowds are congregated • round the telegraph and newspaper offices anxious for the latcet paiticulars. CABTERTON, March 19. I Carterton is densely enveloped in I - smoke. Business places using arI tificial light and the factor- ' ies are closed, it being to dark to work. The sciools in Carterton and district were closed, and the children have been sent home. The smoke lightened at 11 o'clock, the conditions becoming more normal, though the smoke is * tftill dense and nurtful to the eyes. MASTEETON, March 19. Masterton was enveloped in almost total darkness this morning up till nearly 9 o'clock, the sky being dull and red for some three hours. Clouds of smoke passed overhead, and assies fell. 1 Work was suspended for some time, owing to the darkness. A heavy gale is raging, and conditions were returning to normal at 10.30,-though the town was l in dense smoke. WELLINGTON, March 19. Large bush fires are raging in the \ northern country districts. The city is r enveloped in a thick cloud of smoke, so dense that the atmosphere is distinctly tainted and the light obscured to such an extent that offices are compelled to use artificial illumination. PAHIATUA, Mar. 19. Pahiatua had an extraordinary day, including exciting rumours of a volr canic eruption, wind, much smoke, dnst, a storm, a fearful, gale, rain, semi-darkness, an oppressive atmo-X"strangely-coloured sky.