"TOO BAD."
.. ■ ■ (Post.) The late ph°nomenHl weather seems to hare had a very unsettling effect upon the minds of some people who wpre beginning to dread wehther something still more disastrous might not be m Btore. A rumour has obtained extensive circulation during the last few dayd to the effect that Dr. Hector bad predicted that matters would reach a climax m the shape of a peculiarly destructive earthquake, and not a few people, we believe, have been made quite unhappy m consequence. Of course the rumour ia without foundation. One of our contenadorrtries, we notice, has wickedly suggested that Dr. Hector ia entirely to blame for the recent storms by having introduced hi 3 " confounded isobars, 1 ' but it is really too bad to attempt to saddle him with hypothetical earthquakes m addition.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 53, 31 January 1884, Page 3
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