EARTHQUAKE.
VIOLENT SHOCK IN WELLINGTON,
CONSIDERABLE CONSTERNATION CAUSED. STAMPEDE AT OPERA HOUSE. WINDOWS BROKEN AND A FIRE CAUSED.
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 12. A violent earthquake occurred here at 9.30 to-night, causing considerable consternation. People in the theatres became very much alarmed, and most of them hurriedly left. At the Opera" House there was quite a stampede, passages being quic'.dy blocked, and some people fainted. The violence of the shock caused the Post Office bell to start ringing. In some houses windows were broken. A lamp in a house in Kent Terrace Was upset and a bedroom burned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9648, 13 November 1909, Page 5
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99EARTHQUAKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9648, 13 November 1909, Page 5
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