STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
A heavy thunderstorm, with vivid lightning, broke over tho settlement, about eleven miles from NfW Plymouth, between seven and eight o'clock on Saturday morning. Tho lightning wont down the kitchen chimney of the house of a settler named John Honwood, struck two pt his children—* boy named George, between five and six years of ago, and a girl aged about nine. The lightning came among the family, who were in the b'»ok kitchen, and split a piece offlcanting 4in •% 2in into matchwood. On the little gill’s left arm, between tho elbow and shoulder, the lightening has photographed a fernleaf better than it could h*ve been painted on the atm. Another curious thing about it wag that tho sleeve’; of tho girl’s frock had not been at all singed or disturbed in any way. The boy bus become sensib e, but cannot speak, but the way he wonted his hands on his aromaoh made those in the house fear that he was Buffering great pain in that part of the body.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1631, 8 September 1887, Page 4
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173STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Temuka Leader, Issue 1631, 8 September 1887, Page 4
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