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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 259, 20 February 1874, Page 3

The arrival of the- a.s. Mongol, in forty"five and a-half days from Plymouth, marks an era in the history of passenger traffic to New Zealand. A service of steamships of similar power, between, this Colony and Lon*--don, is now proved! to be a- practical possibility. The late hot weather at Blacks was brongh t to anend on v Monday morning last by one "of the most violent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning ever remembered bring witnessed in the district No human lives were lost, I am thankful to pnv ; hut no inrnT]<iifl»r--able amount, of property was desiroved, including a valuable draught mare. Tlie d\v«-li-ing-house occupied by Ifr ftreeir (clergyman)* was,"struck by lightning, •which shivered oneof the corner poms. - Tho electric fluid then ran along the/guttering, and entered a quantity" of straw stacked at the other end of the building, setting it on tire. - Fortunately the flames were extinguished before much damage had been- done. A farmer named Carrie gal had. ; a_yaluable mare killed at the same;, 'time.' —.'iJunstan Times.'