THE REPORTED VOLCANO AT WEST WANGANUI.
Our Collingwood correspondent telegraphs to-)r.y ?3 follows:— Latest advices from W>st Wanpanui etate that there is a marked diminution of tmoke isßumg from the lisßutes, wbile the heat has greatly increased. The largest fissure is about six'y feet in length with a visible depth of about twenty feet. All along the chasm, which st the tpp
is about three feet wide and gradually narrowing aa ifc goes down, tha heat is foffloient to kindle wood into a flame Immediately on being thrown into it. There are several fresh smaller rents in the hill all running parallel nnd about cix feet ep«t from that from which smoke with a strdng heat is issuing. There is every indication of coal no6r, but, whether it is a coal seam or ocher cotr>bnstibl9 mntetinl spontaneooely Ignited, U U certain that there in a fierce firo burning undornrath which is gradually undermining the hill and thereby causing tho rent.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue XVI, 7 November 1881, Page 2
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160THE REPORTED VOLCANO AT WEST WANGANUI. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue XVI, 7 November 1881, Page 2
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