THE VOLCANIC OUTBREAK AT HAWAII.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1479, 10 February 1887, Page 3

THE VOLCANIC OUTBREAK AT HAWAII.

Th« Hawaiian Gazette of January £2ad reports : — By the arrival of the stiamar Kinon, from Way porto, news i* to^hand from Hol:<uo. Tho datfUls are rmngro, but (uffioieut his be p n received to indicate that Maura Loa is again dotivo, and accoon'9 seem >o ogree that. it.

i iho summit crater. M ku a-v/eo-weo is ihe centre of the gr<?atc>Bt force at pri'strit, and th j crater of Kilmioa ia also man U'u-uil «tato of commotion. The first indications of any disturbance were observed «t Rilo at 4 40 hi the afternoon of the lGsh from the vuloano iv'u«o. The report of January 18th says : — ' The (low that broke out «n the south nlopo of of Mauua Loa ba» been running Bince down the mountain. This evening it wiib very bright It most have run some fifteen miles or more." The Gazette's luilo correspondence also furnishes the following aHdUional particulars :— r" Hilo, January 21st. —A now lava fl >w has hrokf.n out from tho summit of Mauna Ln». apparently from the crater of IWoka-a-weo-weo, floating down the mountain at the back of KaSuhukuka on the Kono sido. It w;s first seen from Hilo 00 Sunday nighr, Jttramry IG^h. On Thursday night, thi 20th or January, it illuminated ihe he^veus, and whs seen by hundreds of JNativ^a und foreigners at Hilo. Tho volcano of Kilaum aecms also to b'.t m great activiiy There have ba^n a preiit mar-y eanhquakes «t fJilo lately; not less th;m t>uven diatlncf. shocks being felt th>?re on Monday, Janua-.y 19 h. The eh-icks of Moudvy .night, occurring at a quarter to twolva, were particularly heavy."