AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
SUBMARINE DISTURBANCES. Received July 23, 11.18 a.m. SYDNEY, July 23. The steamer Navua, which has arrived here from the Islands, reports thai the volcanic disturbance recently sported has been located south-west,of the Island of Tongatabu, in ths some miles from the shore. The Premier of Tonga, who visited the spot, states that there appear to be vents not far from each other. There was a rushing, booming sound, and a column of smoke and steam mixed with black pumice was thrown into the air with tremendous noise, j The coltsjnn was close on a hundred ( feet high. , The vents were playing alter- | nately, and should the outbreak continue the formation of a fiavv island is predicted.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8493, 24 July 1907, Page 5
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118AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8493, 24 July 1907, Page 5
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