STORM RESULTS.
! The Telegraph Office advised this ai ! ternoon that as the result of a thunder , storm at an early hour this morning I “ie telegraph line between Colds j borough and Kuniara was struck bj j lightning. In one instance a tolegrapi J pole was smashed and broken and ii other instances the poles were damaged. The damages caused were of sued a nature that communication between Hokitika and the north was entirely cut off all day and no telegraphic business in or out was transacted. It was I not expected, we were informed at 3.15 p.in. that the line would he restor!ed until well on in the evening. As a j result of the break in the lino our cable news to-day has suffered. < ( c i J t I t J t G 0 J] S V n t< ») C‘i n n n g n fc O' o; ti 01 SI 1)1 fl \Y h h hi* h is si fc b n o s <3 i G S g d r l c i f i a < k \ t t I c
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1918, Page 3
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185STORM RESULTS. Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1918, Page 3
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