WELLINGTON.
This day. Arrived: The Waimea, 103 days out from London.
Yesterday, Intelligence was received this afternoon from Tinui that the Telegraph office in that township was struck by lightning about 8 o'clock on Saturday night and set fire to. The operator was fortunately on the premises at the time, and succeeded in extinguishing the flames before much damage was done. All the wires in the office were broken by the lightning, and no fewer than eleven poles on Black-hill were shattered by the electric discharge.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4459, 20 April 1883, Page 2
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86WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4459, 20 April 1883, Page 2
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