APPROACHING EARTHQUAKES.

Kumara Times, Issue 2801, 12 September 1885, Page 3

APPROACHING EARTHQUAKES.

The earthquake shocks which were felt recently over a wide area in Yorkshire reminds us (Home News) that an authority on the subject of these phenomena, M. Delauney, of Paris, is of opinion that next year will see the iecurrence of upheavals of the eaith.-i crust in an intensified form. M. Delauney is a prophet of evil, but, unfortunately, all his prophecies have hitherto come true. His specialty is earthquakes, and be predicts them only too surely. In 1877 he announced that that year would not conclude without violent disturbances of the earth, and as a matter of fact the frightful catastrophes on the coast of South America followed. In 1883, M. Delauney again pointed to approaching earthquakes, and soon after the volcanic eruptions in the Indian Archipelago occurred, by which thousands of human beings lost their lives, and hundreds of square miles ot terra firm a were engulfed by the sea. Towards the end of last year M. Delauney once more raised his warning voice, and the earthquakes in Spain proved how well founded were his warnings. Quite recently he has prophesied very severe volcanic disturbances for 18SG. Having acquired a well-merited notoriety in foretelling earthquakes, some weight ought to be attached to M. Delauney’s utterances. Hr affirms that next year these natural phenomena will be of a very intense character, and that they will show themselves either when the earth is under the influence of a planet of the first rank, such as Jupiter, or under that of a group of asteroids or at a time when sun and moon ate nearest to our planet ad the same time.