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LIGHTNING PRANKS.

Lightning sometimes plays some singular pranks that are not quite tragical We (Geelong Tin.es) narrated on the singular smashing of a brandy bottle in Mooro’oool hotel street shop. It has since been discovered that the hay stacks burnt at Point Henry were set fire to by the lightning attracted by the wires that fastened down. the stacks. But even these instances do not equal one recorded in the Ballarat Post that happened .on the same day at a private school in Ballarat. It seems that a row of little boys were sitting down, one of them busily employed whittling with a pen-knife, whan the electric fluid struck the blade, breaking it short off, the broken part striking him across the nose and inflicting a severe cut, while the boy next to him fainted? The same paper reports, that three fires occurred on Monday near Bungaree at totally different points, of the compass. Mr D. Clohesy lost five stacks ; one lot of five stacks was fully, half-a-mile from the other, and the two lots were burning at the same time. Mr; Hiadiey, residing five miles to the west of Mr Clohesy, also lost some stacks on the same day.

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Temuka Leader, Issue 372, 7 April 1881, Page 2

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LIGHTNING PRANKS. Temuka Leader, Issue 372, 7 April 1881, Page 2

LIGHTNING PRANKS. Temuka Leader, Issue 372, 7 April 1881, Page 2

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