RAIN-STORM IN SAMOA.
ENORMOUS LAND-SLIDES. Press Association, AUCKLAND, last uigh't. News by the Navua to-day states that great rains had occurred at the Island of Tutuila, Samoa, doing very much damage at Pago Pago and elseL where. Some great landslijis took place in and around the harbor. One was 20 acres in extent. Another damaged the United States'- Naval Station, and the Sergeant of Marine was smothered before he could be rescued. Two houses were caught iu one of the slips and swept into- the sea, but the occupants escaped. « ==-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2112, 21 June 1907, Page 2
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