EARTHQUAKE.
(per press association.) Ch-istchurch, September 10. At Waikarl earchquako Bhocks were fel on Sunday at 4 22 a m , and 6 30 p.m. and to-d»y at 4 a.m. and 12 9 p.m., bu wore nob auffioianily heavy to c^uae ui easiness. The Tfangiora correßpocdont of th " Lyttelton Timea " says :— A reßi dent here, whose veracity cin hi vouched for, states that at twenty-on< minutes to one o'clock this (Sunday mcrniog he vras standing at his dooi looking in the direction of Mount Gre] when he was more than Btartled by i sadden upward barst of light apparently tiling from a spot eome diatanoe to th< rear or North of the monntalu., Th* light brightly illatriaated the hills anc sky, lasted for a minute or two, snd ther disappeared. The observer, after inform ing his family of what he had aeen, walked some distance away from his house tc obtain a clearer view of the hills, bnt there was no repetition of the mygterlone UlnmlnaUoD, He compares the light to a piotorial representation cf a volcanic eruption, and is impressed with the belief that an outburst has taken place somewhere in the Amuri Hot. Springs region.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1941, 11 September 1888, Page 3
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196EARTHQUAKE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1941, 11 September 1888, Page 3
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