The Weather.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 38, 15 February 1904, Page 2

The Weather.

BATTKIUY XKIHTS STORM. Xot cvi-ii In (lie memory of the "olita-'t inli'aUi luuvL" has there been such a long-sustained ami severe tJm nKlc:'>"UH'iu us Unit, which passed over New Plymouth on Saturday night. The previous nigivt had bten rc-iuiU'Kn.'lilt* for an umisuul electrical display ; but it j>aled into insigniiioanre -be»i»de tlvat oi' Saturday. From a-bout II p.m. till after daylight yesterday there vva.s an ineosisaiU canno'mi'd'ing from the aerial nrtillery, while I-he eontiwuous phiy of the ■ through blackness of the h'igl.it—laterally as dark as ICrelvu-s—----terrified many a nervous person out of all ithanre of Mlumlber. Somewhere lyetwecn 11 a.m. a-mi 1 a.m. an extraordinanily heavy peal of thunder was heard w'h'ii-lir in various parts oi Ihe town was crediited with having s'luak-L-ii by the intensity of the atmospheric vibralions it set up. Fortn'mi/tely, so far, no damage is reported from the storm, which wit, accoinn/aiiiii'd hy very heavy rain. Tin' ¥isik« on Saturday night, cau«enl a|i 'iuti"iTu:ption on the telegraph line to Auckland, somewhere between Mokinu nnid Mnhoenmi. The telegra.ph slalY experts to have communication icsloivil lo>iday. IX OTIIKIi I'AUTS. (Pci- IVess Association.) Feb. 14. Stcrt'ly ruin fell for several hours last, nighl and this mowing. It will iiiitiM'lere wiifi }iar\est in# somewhat, hut was mi'iriTed for turnips mn\ 14istute. W;ANCiANUT, Feb. 14. A very lwajvy thmiuterstorni broke over the towji eiirly this monving, an'd to-day a gale from the west" ward has heen blowing,