FALLING METEORS.
,A few weeks ago we (Home paper) reparted the narrow escape of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s Lima from destruction by a meteor which fell into the sea in her close vicinity. '' he United States man-of-war Alaska has recently met with similar good fortune. Captain Belknap, in a report to the departmsnt, states that on December 12, a few minutes after sunset, a loud rushing noise was heard like that of a large rocket dascending from the zenith with immense force and velocity. It was a meteor, and when within some lOdeg of the horizon it exploded with great noise and flame, the glowing fragments streaming down into the sea like huge sparks and sprays of fire. Then came the most wonderful part of the phenomena, for at the point in the heavens where the meteor burst, there appeared a figure the shape of an immense distaff, all aglow with a bluish-white light of the most intense brilliancy. It kept that form for perhaps two minutes, when it began to lengthen upward and grow wavy and zigzag in outline from the action of the wind, and gradually diminishing in breadth until it became a fine spiral line at its upper end, dissolved into the fast gathering clouds the meteor seemed to have evoked.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1104, 12 May 1883, Page 3
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215FALLING METEORS. Temuka Leader, Issue 1104, 12 May 1883, Page 3
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