METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENON.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 694, 24 June 1869, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENON.

On the 10th May a singular phenomenon was noticed in the air for milps around Oarlisle. Between four and fWo o'clock a ' pillar of fire passed from cast to west over this city, and was noticed fur more than twenty miles around. The fiery substance resembled an ordinary gate-post in size and shape, and seemed as though it wis pre vented from falling by some connecting cord. It travelled at a pretty quick rate, throwing a lurid glare over every spot that it passed. At Grlasson, it is stated, the fiery substance caused the atmosphere to be very much heated and, indeed, from all that can be learned, this was the effect wherever it travelled. A farm servant at Grlasson says that the fin-' seemed to pass withiu a few yards of him, and that the heat was overpowering. The pillar suddenly exploded in the air, and immediately after the report, which re sembled the sound following the discharge of a caunon, and was heard for a great dis tanee around, a singular brightness lib; up the heavens, and daylight then intervened with extraordinary rapidity.

TREASURE TROVE. On thf 6th April, as two lads, named Henry Williams and William Saunders, were looking tor bird's nests on the Portsmouth ramparts at the back of Coleworl Barrack?, one of them thrust his arm up a gulley-hole, and in doing so found a collarbox, in which were two _>oH Albert-chains, 20 go d finger-rinsjs, and 23 gold ear-rings, all new. The boys took the pcoperty to the father of Saunders, who with thein proceeded to the police station. The property is supposed to be part of the proceeds of a burglary effected at the house of Mr Prior, a jeweller, living at Hanoversquare, Portsea, whose premises were enteivd on the night of the 9th September, ISO'S, and on which occasion L3i.' gold fin-der-rings, 23 gold ear-rings, and li gold chains were stolen. MISCELLANEOUS.

Mrs Plow, the widow of the clergyman who was murdered at Todmorden last year, and who w'a- herself brutally ill used, died on the evening of Friday, 19th March, at Wantage, Berkshire. A boy was charged before the Birmingham magistrates on the 10th April vvith vagrancy, having been found sleeping in a waggon. His mother appeared, and on being asked what religion she professed, \vith a view to her son being sent to a re f'ormatory, she replied, '1 go cleaning and working." Michael Costa, the celebrated opera conductor, has received the honor of knighthood. The Queen has created Prince Arthur a Knight of St. Patrick.