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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 891, 13 December 1870, Page 2

The Eveuing News says :—The lightning which accompanied the storm yestei> day afternoon, was attended with a fatal result at Panmure. A poor woman named Coiners was sitting in the house, with her infant child, during the storm, while her husband was at work a short distance away. On turning to look at the house* he found that the chimney had been struck by lightning, and had fallen down. He immediately hurried home to render assistance, and on entering the room saw bis wife dead on the floor, and the child, perfectly uninjured, playing over its mothers' dead body. On hearing of the accident, the Catholic clergyman at that place visited the bereaved husband, and the neighbors did all they could (or him, further particulars are nut yet to hand. A remarkable discovery has been made by a man at Grenoble, by which it is calculated that cemeteries and graveyards will become superfluous. At the decease of an individual the body is plunged into a liquid invented by the man of Grenoble* and in about five years' time the individual is turned into stoue, The secret of the petrifaction is known only to the discoverer, But he goes further. He saya that in a thousand years' time, if persona will only preserve their relatives and. friends, they will be able to huild houses, with them, and thus live in residences, surrounded by their ancestors.