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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3828, 23 October 1883, Page 4

There seems little doubt that the so-called "tidal wave" which has so recently swept over the coast of Java is intimately connected with the volcanic activity of the mountain in tlio "bay. This kind of wave is of a totally different character and origin from the last destructive Avave that visited that quarter of the world, the cyclone wave of Bengal, on October 31, IS7G, which, sweeping up the Bay of Bengal to the lowlying country around the mouth of the Ganges, covered an area of 3000 square miles, and in a few minutes destroyed 215,000 lives. The nature and causes of cyclonic storms we described at the time. Put the wave which was swept over Java has quite a different origin, though what is the exact connection between such phenomena and earthquakes and volcanic action seismologists have not yet determined. The last great manifestation of the kind was on Juno 10th, 1877, ivhen an enormous wave spread itself from the Sandwich Islands to the Por.ivian coast, and even made itself felt in Australi a and New Zealand. This wave was certainly coincident with a A'iolent eruption of Mount Kilauca, in Hawaii, and with frequent earthquake shocks and eruptions on the west coast of South America, Both in the Sandwich Islands and in Pern the wave repeatedly charged over the land, carrying ships far "inland," and destroying everything that came in its way. Curiously enough, on the same date a very marked shock of earthquake was felt at Comric, in Scotland, the most frequent centre of seismic activity in this country. But this earthquake was not nearly so destructive to life as that which in' 180S destroyed Hie towns of Arequipn, in Peru, when 30,000 lives wen.; lost. Then- seems little doubt, then, that (he so-called tidal wave which has swept over the west coast of Java is really of seismic origin, and is akin to Iho.su earthquake waves which have been so destructive elsewhere. But what is the exact relation between the activity of Kmkatoa volcano, and the wave cannot bo determined till further details come to hand.—Times.

CJoveriiimcHt Gazette. SALE OF FORFEITED DEFERRED PAYMENT SECTIONS AND OF TOTAKA 1 fMI'.KR. Crown Lands Oliice, Napier. October l'_». 'VTOTICE is hereby given that the Lands L% referred to in the schedule liereunder will be offered for sale by public auction at the Council Chamber, Napier, on WI'IDNESDAY, the 14th of November next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. At the same time and place, the right to cut timber, from November 11, 1883, to August M, ISS-1-, on suburban section 12, adjoining the township of Dancvirke, in the Tahor.iito Survey District, will be offered to public competition, upset" price, .£-■> cash. Terms, jilans, conditions, and other particulars ''ail be obtained on application to this oilice. HORACE BAKER, Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCIIKDULE. Fou Sale on Df.i-f.rued Payments. NonsF.woon Survf.y District. Block. Section. Area. Upset Price. A. n. r. £ s. d. 111. .. 1 ..50 031 .. 75 0 5 VI. .. 3 ..50 0 0 .. 02 10 0 Tajiokaite Sukvey Disteict. IX. ..10 .. 21 331 .. 49 10 S XIII. .. 1 ..300 1 21 .. 1300 8 0 Small Farm Allotment. —Tillage of IvUJIKROA. VI. ..13 .. ') :J 7 .. 28 10 0 WELLINGTON-NAPIER RAILWAY. TAHORAITE STATION BUILDINGS CONTRACT, (Includes 17 Buildings). Public Works Office, Wellington, Oct. 15, 1883. ripENDEKS will be 'received at this office JL until NOON on FRIDAY, November 10, ISS3, for the above Contract. They are to be marked on the outside, " Tender for Tahoraite Station Buildings Contract," and addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works. Telegraphic, tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any Telegraph Ollice by NOON of the same date, provided that tenders as above are lodged at any District or Resident Engineer's Office by the same hour. Specifications and general conditions may be seen at this ofSiee": at the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Hawcni, Wanganui, and Kopua ; at the Railway Stations, New Plymouth and Napier; and at the Warden's Oilice, Grahamstown. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, JOHN BLACTCETT, Engineer-in-eharge, North Island. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. COAL SUPPLY, 1881. Railway Department, Wellington, October 5, ISS3. HPENDERS will'be received up to-noon X of MONDAY, October 29, ISS3, for the Supply and Delivery of Coal and Coke for the New Zealand Railways. They must bu addressed to the General Manager of New Zealand Railways, Wellington, and marked outside, "Tender for Coal." Specifications can be seen, and forms of tenders obtained, at the oilices of Railway Managers at Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Nelson, Picton, Greymouth, Westporf, Christchurch, Dunediu; and the Stationmasters' oilices at Whangarci and Invercargill. Telegraphic tenders will be received if presented at any Telegraph Otlice by NOON of the same date, provided that written tenders in due form are lodycd at, a Railway Manager's ollice by the same hour.

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