FLYVINti MKER OR METEOR1 ftEKN BY Llt;4 AL KfcSIDKNT.To the eight people In northern 1 centres who last week said they raw | what they thought was a Hying , saucer whizzing across the sky one night may be added at least one local resident He Is Mr. Arthur Tate, the blacksmith, who saw the Object when he w.is sitting on the bark verandah of Ids home m King Street after tea. He said It was brilliantly lit nil over and looked at : first like a small 'plane although it waa travelling nun h fuster than’ a I | pane. It came rmm a north-west- | erly direction and disappeared in a flash over the Mogrant Opinion nt I the Government Astronomer iMr. H.| W. Wood I. who raid he had received I good descriptions of the object wus that it was almost certainly u heigh* j meteor.