NAPIER.
This day.
About five o'clock on Sunday afternoon the house of Mr Wood, manager Bank of New Zealand, Waipawa, was struck with lightning. The eleciric fluid entered the building breaking open the roof and side of the wall. It entered a room where two children were at tea, struck a Httle__^irl,: Wood's daughter, on the foot, and a'fooyT Wood's stepson, on the chest, killing him instantly. The girl was slightly injured. Wood was in the conservatory, and was knocked against the wall by the shock, but was not injured, though the paper on the wall was scorched.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2493, 2 January 1877, Page 2
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98NAPIER. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2493, 2 January 1877, Page 2
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