ISLAND NEWS.
/ >;kkk'\m. :'.\-ej/t over the Samoan and 'V'-njiJin Uioups ki-i month. The storm ■\ 'i- felt most '•evciely at Haabai, in the Tonj,an (Jiuup, s-.heie several bmall vessels ««opei p c (hived ashen c and ten lives lo»t. Afc i\;'Ja, one of Messrs Mc.Vtfclmi and Vo, -» schooners, the Tafua, v.a^' ,\vun t'.slioro, and would, it was extouted, bcoojjio a toiul wreck. The Getmm v.a ships OUa and Adlev were lying in i,ti <v uo! tof Af). i n hen the .storm set in, and l»oth\e.isels fto'. up steam and prepared for :ca in ca^e ot aaisv^fncy. As ifc liap[)ened, they were enabled to ride out the storm at t*ic anchorage.
THE TOM JAN VOLCANO. Intelligence has reached Ton^a that th handily or Falcon Inland, which was re ojni/ly discovered off (he Tongan Group, kia become actne, and iv February and <lse beginning o£ March it was ejecting {irwifc quantities ot ashes. The sight ii nijrht, as witnessed by the natives <>t Nukualofa, i 1i 1 - f-aid to have been brilliant in the extreme, ftuvpabs-'iug that of other \olcanoeB in the South Seas. The new i'4and i.s situated in lu'c. 20deg. 19min south, Jong. 175deg. Slmin. west, It is 164 ft. ;s,bovo tlie level of the sea and 1^ niiles lon^, attending north - west and i-outh-east. The Culebro? Reef which was lcported in the vicinity of tho island does iTiob exist, the American warship Mohican having parsed over the position marked on the chart without ob»erving any trace of
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 10
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248ISLAND NEWS. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 10
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