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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 46, 21 August 1891, Page 7

Now that the quail is nearly extinct in Ireland, it is interesting to learn from an old treatise published by an Englishman in Queen Elizabeth's reign that a dozen quails could then be bought for threepence—a dozen woodcocks for fivepeoce. A curious, and what might have been a much more serious sccident befell a company of soldiers near Berlin a few days ago. In the midst of a severe thunderstorm the lightning struck in the middle of the company An officer was felled to the ground insensible, his horae was killed, and a soldier who was holding the bridle was burnt and injured severely. Others of the soldiers were wounded, and a large number complain or various ill-effects of the lightning.