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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 178, 26 January 1912, Page 8

During a. thunderstorm at midday last Thursday, Mrs. H. Manhardt, of Linwood, together with her son and daughter, was seated at the dinner table, when there came a crash of thunder which temporarily stunned them. On looking round they found that the' room was filled with* a thick smoke. Presently they looked about them and found that it came from a paper ornament which had been destroyed by fire, and lightning was obviously the cause of it all, and its track was found near the bottom of the garden, where a strip was torn off a wooden rail, and a section of netting wire was fused. The discharge had then run along the clothes line, which was attached to the house, fusing the nail which fastened it, and splintering a hole through the weather boards to the kitchen, It had run across the roof, leaving a trail of burnt wood, and turned aside into the scullery, where it slightly burned the wooden part of the sink and flattened out a piece of brass chain attached to the tap. A large iron dish lying in the sink had a deep dent made m it and a small hole. The Englishmen can play cricket," remarks an enthusiastic colonial, and there is a good deal in that. Warner's team looks like taking home the ashes, and as matters stand now they deserve to, for there is merit in their work. Worth and merit mean much to the possessors, and that is really why Crescent Blend Tea finds so much favor with the public Advt. -, v Warner's Corsets are splendid holiday corsets. They cannot ru=t nor break, nor can the fabric tear. Prices 5/6 and upwards, from local drapers.—Advt. Ask persistently for the Roslyn Writing Tablets—Adyt.