EARTHQUAKE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1771, 18 September 1895, Page 2

EARTHQUAKE.

FOUR HUNDRED . LIVES LOST. New York, September 13.' .News has been received that violent earthquakes have taken place in Honduras, and volcanic eruptions atmany points on Yatapatt mountain, the flames shooting Up a hundred? feet 5 high, and streatns of*lava running, down che.;mountain sides. Four hundred lives were lost, including eighty soldiers. Enormous damage was done to houses, and the loss of stock is very heavy. ■

THE WOOL SALES. ? .'&GH isRRICES. LpOEED FOR I vr, --; s. .., LQjiDph^September 13. Wool is very firm. Only 2501 bh es have been ; sold to the interval since last auction, holders* being to anticipate the coming sales. Tops have risen 15 to 20 per cent, at Antwerp* and Turcoing since July. Messrs Jacouib consider the outlook more encouraging than.for several years.

: : THE DROUGHT '• j Sydney, September 16. • The inhabitants, of 'Glyetahre. Waterless: * • A train has conveyed water thither, and the fluid is ' polling at Is per hundred gallons.-;. : : ‘ ‘ ■:.* .:. . Later. • 4 : There Was a heavy thunderstorm in the city tb-nightj an<Lstea&y rain has been falling for several hours which promises to continued Similar storms haVO occurfediniha ' districtsih^H^c<>lohy ) '''ic|(pwOd by a steady fall of rain. >:The.Weakness in the pfodflce market is more noticeable tp.-day " owing to heavy shipments coming forward from Victoria.

FLOODS IN VICTORIA.

; ; Melbourne, September 16. x The Murray rose; 2£ feet at Tocumwall. causing the Victoria reclamation embankment to burst.' A. coach’carrying the mail came through the flood for two miles, the. water reaching do the body of the vehicle. Efforts to stop the breach so far have been futile, and it is feared the village settlement of Coonamboo will bo flooded out.