Volcanic Disturbance*
Early this morning the whole of the residents of the Borough and environs were awakened by sounds described by some lihe that _- produced by rolling an iron water tank over the. ground, others compared it to the fire of artillery from the Russian war vessel bombarding Wanganui, while less imaginative people thought their neighbors horses were kicking a way out of their stables. One gentleman imagined that burglars had got into his office, and were rolling his safe along the railway platform, wjple another firmly believed the noise was made by a lunatio confined in the police cells. They wore all wrong, because it was valeanoes in active eruption,* as described in our telegrams.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 155, 10 June 1886, Page 2
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116Volcanic Disturbance* Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 155, 10 June 1886, Page 2
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