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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 880, 22 September 1881, Page 2

One of the merest thunderstorms experienoed for some years broke over Lon, don on the night of July 5. About U o'clock rain began to fall, and the first peals of thunder broke forth shortly befere midnißht. The lightning, both forked and sheat was exceedingly brilliant, and continned almost without ineermission, while at iuterrals the rain fell in torrents. Severe thunderstorms are,also reported from other provinces, and in some caiei ■'fatal results have followed, As a' bny, J » liriver at the Binchester Colliery, Bishep Auckland, was leaving his work he was struck by the lightning and killed, 'At Durham it began early in the evening, arid from half-past five till six total darkness . prevailed; a shower of large hailstones : accompaniedi the At ..Lj.wrpooL.tha, atmosphere was extremely close,'both ' before and after the storrfi. 'The light' ; ning was 'intensely Vivid J irr 'the' ■ Isle of Man. As far south as Penaance " the storm raged. In Dublin a woman' was killed by the lightning,