EFFECT OF SEISMIC DISTURBANCES.
(Per Sierra at Auckland). AUCKLAND, October 2. , A despatch from Honolulu, dated August 2Sth, says:—Captain Houdlette, of the Oceania Steamship Company's liner Sierra, which arrived here to-day from New Zealand, 'says during the last two days be experienced an extraordinary northwest current. It was the strongest be had ever encountered, throwing bis vessel thirty miles out of her •course in one day. He attributed the stranding of the Manchurja to the same ourrent. The opinion is expressed at. Honolulu that the recent severe seismic disturbances on the coasts of North and South America may have set new and powerful currents dnto motion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8250, 3 October 1906, Page 6
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106EFFECT OF SEISMIC DISTURBANCES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8250, 3 October 1906, Page 6
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