A ternfie thunderstorm passed over the Motupipi Valley, Nelson, a few days since. A correspondent of one of the local paper* mentions that the lightning struck IS his sheep dead, four ewes aud one wether! They were found lying so as to form a cirea k.r nng about ten yards in diameter, all their heads being northward. Three out of the nve dead sheep had a mark, two feet long by one mch wide, as though a red hot iron had been run along their sides, the woolwa. burned down on each side of the mark and the skm was left quite bare.
