EXCITEMENT AT GISBORNE. The Volcano Visible There. Gisborne last night.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 157, 19 June 1886, Page 5

EXCITEMENT AT GISBORNE . The Volcano Visible There. Gisborne last night.

At 2.50 thin moiniuo ;h 0 inhabitants oi Cikborne were stattled out «.f then vleep by a tumbling noise, accompanied by chock? causing houses to shako and window? to lattle. As thcic wemed a likelihood oi a phenomenon, a mnnbvr of people trot, up and paraded the t wn in n frJatu oi great exnitemenh -Utentiou was diawn in the direction of Ilotorn *, from winch big volumes (.f fiio could be t,em stavin" "P in the i-ir cano, icd by a bell-UapcJ cloud. TJxp si^hi, -\w^ <i ma^ninct'-.u, one 1 ho clouds epirfld out cr.er tl.o whole tky ond a Himbling tiont'i.iiocl till neailv iuut m the morning u },«a t j-..' cv o^ a - Invp shock of e.iithqunke followed (pjicjU/ liy a-s. thei blight -diock. The town up io Iho p-cient 1= nemly in uUev darkne.s 'J ho shops me nil lit up. There i, n dlrmct smell lenadvig the ah y\\,U.h ha.» a f'CCllliai eIK-ct on many of the pcunlo The aflah <..m-ed great e\oilcir.f.n!. TJ.e biu's this mommy vne fljinj; ab<u L. u. a hcli)lcss f.i'hioti. Up to 030 the Ti:. n ].t m,i, oL-«u bnfc mtrr.feoly cold. At pie-eLt it: * iainin<' hard.