VESUVIUS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8084, 14 April 1906, Page 2

VESUVIUS.

IN THE CAUSE OP SCIENCE. OBBEBVEB BEMAINB AT HIS POST. WHE EEUPTIoFBU^EpiNO. VOLCANO'S APPEAEANCE ENTIRELY CHANGED. Beceived 12,10.51 p.m. Bomb, April 12.

Professor Matuoii remained at hit post in the Veiuvian observatory, despite its partial obstruction. He baa telegraphed that there wen now quieter and more reassuring seismio xeeordi. The latest reports itata that the eruption is subsiding. The appearance of Vesuvius is entirely changed, the old cone having almost disappeared, leaving a flattened ridge. ✓

BUSINESS SipPEKDED IN * NAPLES/' ' AN AWE-INSPIRING v SPECjy ACLE. / "" CENTBAL CBATEB BLOWN UP, WITNESSED BTOBSEBVATOBY STAFF. LIVING IN AN INFEBNO. Beceived 13, 9.47 a.m. Boue; April 12. Buiiness is at a standstill in Naples. The rain of ashes continues widely, though it has ceased it Naples. Professor Mattueii saw tho whole of the central crater blown inW the airMillions of tons of material were scattered, noticoably altering the configuration of the country. The inmates of the observating ate living in an inferno, their Uvea being in constant danger,

ROYAL SYMPATHISERS. A PECULIARI?HEN6MENON. Received 13, midnight. Rome, April 13. • King Emmanuel and Queen Helen* visited the sufferers in the hospitals, and the fugitives. ;- ■ | s. j J When the sun is behind Jhe clouds of light red dust from Vesuvius, it shines pale blue.