NIUAFOA IN ERUPTION.
(Per Press Association.) Dunedin. October 16. The Union Steam Ship Comp my has received a cablegram from Suva to day transmitting a wireless message from Tofua that the Island of Niuafoa was in eruption. Niuafoa is a small island in the Tongan Group, and has a native population of about 200, while
there are probably about six whites on the island. Steamers only call there to exchange mails, which are conveyed to and from the vessels by native swimmers. A volcanic oruptioji took place in the island about 1887, when the centre caved in, and what was formerly high land subsided and formed a largo lake.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 45, 17 October 1912, Page 5
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109NIUAFOA IN ERUPTION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 45, 17 October 1912, Page 5
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