Earthquake in New Caledonia.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION) Sydney. This Day. News, has been received that he-avy earthquake shock* were experienced iv New Caledonia at the end of January. A number of houses were wrecked, and one completely overturned. Telegraph wires were snapped in half. The populace became panic stricken. A tidal wave which followed indicated there had been a submarine eruption. The ground rocked violently. No similar phenomenon is recorded in the history of the culom .
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 244, 20 February 1894, Page 2
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