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SUMMIT OF AMBRYM ISLAND. AN IMPRESSIVE SPECTACLE. (Received Dec. 16, 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 16. The captain of the stealer Pacifique reports that the volcano at the. summit, of Ambrym Island (New Hebrides). -was in eruption on 6th December. Six new craters formed. On Sunday, the 7th December, Mount Minnie- collapsed, threatening the mission .station, Dr Bowie's hospital, and Carmichael's property at Dip Point. Next, morning the people were comperiecf to take refuge in -boats, two new craters overwhelming their late holdings i The church,: and the mission at -Craig's Cove were abandoned. There were no casualties among the. white population, but many , natives are supposed to have perished. .The steamer France saved five hundred natives, who' were taken to port Sandwich. They were mostly women and children, the able-bodied men being left behind. The western part of the island was all afire, making a most impressive spectacle. ' Tho steamer Hawßesliead, which has arrived at Newcastle, reports that when 240 miles off Fiji she be■came thickly covered! with pumice dust, presumably from the Ambrym outbreak.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 December 1913, Page 5
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177IN ERUPTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 December 1913, Page 5
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