SUMMER WEATHER IN NEW ZEALAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 48, 25 January 1884, Page 3

SUMMER WEATHER IN NEW ZEALAND.

Local residents have seen fit to complain a good deal about the weather lately, but, the experiences here have been vety mild compared > with some p9,rts 6f Otago. For an instance read the following from the " Mount Ida \r~ ; ■ • " The thunderstorm on Tuesday; last was 'the heaviest ever expei-ienbed m - the Mount Ida district. >A t eight o'clock when the storm was at its height, a loud' report as of a heavy piece of'ord^ ancewas heard, and immediately a large thunderbolt fell from a mass of black olouds close overhead, and shooting along Levan-strbet daited across towards Roaches. Gully, » which locality it was supposed to have ex pended itsetf. The bolt was a terrific brie, and the report by which it was preceded (or ratheraccompanied) rocked or; shocik the^towrt . ■ as if some fearfnl subterranean influences were at work beneath the crust of the earth. Jt momentarilVblinded several who were m the street at the time, and is said to have precipitated others heavily to the ground. : We ourselves saw one boy thrown'to the earth,bufc whether through frWit or an electric shock we are not m a iTositipn.to say,.." Several casualties of thisSilesciiplibn have been reported, but no! severe accident occurred m connection with the siorm." ■ ; : , ... At Arrow also the thunderstorm is described as terrific. On the Skippers track the electric fluid played fearful hai-oc with the telephone poles and ,wire. OnewhOjtrav^d;:^ 0 :^: the 'track m the midst of the storm informs us l(Press) that the sight was enough to imake the stoii test-hearted i 6be filled with alarm. A flash : would come, and m the midst pi the peal which followed could be h'eai'd the crash' of the telephone poles as they splintered, arid thepiHgof the wires as they were broken. ' „; . „..