LATE SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 198, 25 September 1909, Page 2

LATE SHIPPING.

Sydney, Last Night-Arrived at 4.30, the" Victoria. In, the island of Savaii, in the Pamoan group, during an August night in the year 1905 there arose from the midst of a peaceful cocoa plantation a volcano that in four years of its still ceaseless activity has sent forth more molten lava than has any volcano of which there is human record A. H. Ford describes the scene iully in the current Harpers Weekly. The crater is twenty miles in dianreter, and the stream of lava flowing from it is fifty miles long, and in places four miles wide. This flow of lava, in some places 700 ft in depth, is filling up the sea- along a frontage of more than seven miles, has destroyed about fifty villages and as many square miles of ■what was once the most productive area in all Samoa. From Apia, about fifty liaeß »way on the island of TJpolu, it is sometimes possible to read at nigrt by the glare of the Savaiian volcano, whose twin pillars of vapor by day become transformed then into columns of •red. T2E LATEST AND THB BEST Remedy for Chest Complains is Dr. Sheldon'e New Discovery for Coughs and Colds. It cures -when all else fails. Price, li 6d and 3s. Obtainable ererywheit.