OUR OWN SEISMOLOGIST SPEAKS.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 7, 2 July 1886, Page 2

OUR OWN SEISMOLOGIST SPEAKS.

(Communicated.)

The r*ro©t volcanic disturbance* near Wairoa are nothing more tl.n Ki'auea broken <>u» in a new place. Early in March there was a great disturbance in Hawaii. In April, Kilnuea. which is or was inmmnwrelily the greatest volcano in tin world, shut up ahoj and Went underground. On the 10th April the London Telegraph said :

•• It has done its duty in the past, and may now require a rest. Om little Honolulu hoy* and girl* will li* able to play about-where lately all m n boil ng lava held ; yet the island, rs do no* look on the near departure with fcohnjr* of ilwolute confidence. Thev prwdiri that, us Kilaue.x ha* eated to • i-rupt souk other mountain in tho

adopt the practice. A iMr tMd, from ins obsvrvatnf. that It -v. fekj no mean* an ur.comfor volcanoes to . • arc ranges now existing ugop* which are evidently the vokguiie energy. Wo low' • L of knowing exactiy what when thee* valcano** became it would .be an undeniably |nipl(,*siiii cirvunstance if Vqpuviua Ilocla were to become to moke up for tlie extinction of hii lam*. We must regard the volcanic ranges a* so many safety-valves for the tern hie forces winch ant bnidyii crii't 01 tlie earth .! , - r ■*<i %i an extra amount of work may poosil.ly l>« requmsf from the ronwiteW." Are we rash in concluding that when Kilauea drew in its bonis, larawara prapasil fee hulls f