THE KERIKERI ERUPTION. A SCIENTIFIC OPINION. Wellington, April 11.
Sir Jas. Hector has expressed an opinion that the reported eruption at Keriketi will prove to be a mere escape of natural gas carburetted hydrogen), which has in some way become ignited. If there should be coal seams? or petroleum springs underneath, an outbreak of gas is not an unlikely or unprecedented occurrence, and this would account also for the stones and ashes, The former might have been carried upward with the rush of gas, and the subsequent ignition of the gas would coon produce the appearance of a°hes around the orifice of the natu ral gas-pipe, by causing combustion of the vegetation and vegetable mould fcurrounding the hoJo.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 255, 14 April 1888, Page 4
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118THE KERIKERI ERUPTION. A SCIENTIFIC OPINION. Wellington, April 11. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 255, 14 April 1888, Page 4
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