The Nelson Colonist, of the 25th ult., says: —" A magnificent display of the aurora cmstrails illumined the Southern heavens last night, presenting a beauty and hrilljancy that we n,ever saw equalled. Splendid spires of deep in shape seeming the steeples of some vast cathedral, shot up from the horizon towards the zenith, and changed }n hue from red ttt pale and back to. red again, while towards the west a mass q( ruby-cplpred light spread with brilliant corrwscations for a distanqe of seventy or eighty degrees. This lasted (or fully an hour, and faded into, a pale light, which continued until long paßt injd-
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 859, 5 November 1870, Page 2
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