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350 TIMEHRI. 
Cables have been repeatedly struck by lightning, and 
the Telegraph Instruments themselves damaged. On 
Saturday the 4th Nov. 1893, about 6 p.m., an unusually 
heavy shower of rain, with lightning, followed by loud peals . 
of thunder, broke over the Settlement. The darkness of 
the heavens was intense as if to afford a good background 
for the vivid display of the lightning, which for fully an 
hour illuminated the eastern portion of the sky. Looking 
up the river towards Kyk-over-al there was seen at first 
a dazzling forked or ordinary kind of lightning. Then~ 
followed the crisp sharp bomb-like explosion ; and after 
it a sort of wriggling, corkscrew like fire, which seemed — 4 
as if it worked its way from out the earth, upwards, and 
died away. There was also seen—or rather indicated— 
very distin€tly the kind beheld a!l over the colony, which 
appears like a mighty bird-like glow of light, or flame, 
behind the clouds, which flaps out three or four bursts 
of light, and disappears, only to re-appear at very frequent 
intervals, for a whole evening. But the most brilliantly 
beautiful dispay of all: beheld by the writer, and never 
before noticed, was an immense corrugated ribband- 
like light which seemed to multiply itself over the whole 
expanse of the heavens, in a thousand fantastic forms. 
No harm whatever was reported as resulting therefrom; 
but in various parts of the colony damage has been done, 
though no human life has been lost. A cow however was 
killed during the past year near to a shattered Telegraph 
pole on the East Coast of Berbice. Along the Demerara 
Railway a number of recently ereéted Telephone Instru- 
ments were damaged; whilst at Belfield, several poles 
were split, and the bare copper wires melted. At Abary 
poles were also split, but the wire was not injured. No 
