Struck by Lightning.
(Per Press Association). Gisborne, March '2. Mr Jas. Shaw, of Whatutoka, is just recovering from the effects of an extraordinary accident, which happened the ther afternoon. He wns going to the tank with a kettle in his hand when there was a vivid flash of lightning The lightning struck the kettle and charged it and the electric fluid ran through Shaw's body to the earth The shock felled him to the ground, where be lay completely prostrate The week's illness has been a serious and a painful one.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 208, 4 March 1895, Page 2
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