Pleasant Prediction.
An English papev publishes a prediction of a kind by no m- ans consoling to New Zealand readers, in which it says : — " Not an island ha" been heaved np or sunk fr.-m sight in the Pacific Ocean fur the lust thirty "four yeai>, and geologists say (hat rature is resting for a mighty fffort in tli'' fill i;re An Eigli-h fjeol' gist predicts tlia' within fifty years a convulsion of nature will sink the wLoloof New Zen 'and fifty feet below the surface; of the- .sea." The Chvßtchurch Press remaikd : — We admire the cheerful niatier-of fact manner in which the threatened catastrophe is announced, just :is if it was a matter of small consequence whether New Zealand weie sunk fifty feet below tl.e ocean, or blown a few miles into the air. We should like to know who is the Eng ish geologist who has committed himselfto such an opinion. We fear it would not add much to his scientific reputation if his name were made known.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 October 1890, Page 3
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169Pleasant Prediction. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 October 1890, Page 3
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