EARTHQUAKES IN WELLINGTON.
• to Trra editor or "ihb γ-kess." Sir, —In looking over your notable anniversary list on Friday last, I noticed you mentioned the earthquakes in 1835. Now, 1 cannot understand how you could get to know that, when there was no cne there to record it. I was born in Wellington in 1844, and I well remember the terrible earthquakes on October 16th, 1847, at 1.30 in the morning. Yes, I well remember, and have good reasons, too, when we found ourselves in the street, such as it was, just as we were thrown out of bed, -with tho houses rattling down. We stood-there until daylight, as the shaking was so terrible all those hours, we had to retreat into the bush to sleep until the hcose was habitable. The earth was vibrating for six weeks before it settled. Wellington, it was said, went down twenty inches. I mention this because I have never \ seen anything in your "notable events" of the earthquakes at the time I speak of. —Yours, etc.. GEORGE COLLIER.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14888, 30 January 1914, Page 4
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175EARTHQUAKES IN WELLINGTON. Press, Volume L, Issue 14888, 30 January 1914, Page 4
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