Show False Alarm About halfpast 11 last evening the alarm of fire was sounded from the City Hal and immediately everybody was on the alert the prevailing question as usual being where is it V No cne knew and consequently information was not to be had There = were no indications indica-tions of a blaze anywhere and at last the hose cart which with its men was as usual promptly dispatched dis-patched to the supposed scene of the trouble was observe returning the tinkling of its bells seeming to forma form-a discordant chime of supreme diarist dia-rist It was afterwards learned that a girl in Em Davis bagnio had moved the indicator on the District Telegraph box to fire and made a call which of course was promptly responded to If this was a mistake it will have to be overlooked but if intentional it ought to be punished Strange Phenomena On Monday morning shortly after 2 oclock lightning commenced to dart from the heavens and at times was very vivid This was continued for about an hour when a vast sheet of the lurid element descended upon the earth so glaring as to almost blind those who witnessed it it was immediately followed by a loud peal of thunder which awoke many sleepers throughout the city For this time of the year it also being extremely cold at the time such events can scarcely be considred as otherwise than startling and we await an explanation at the hands of the scientific |