APPROACHING EARTHQUAKES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2180, 28 December 1885, Page 2

APPROACHING EARTHQUAKES.

The earthquake shocks winch were felt last week over a wide area iu Yorkshire remind us that an authority on the subjeot of those phenomena, J{, Delaunay,' of Paris, is of opinion that next year will see the recurrence of upheavals of the earth's crust in an- intensified form, M.' Delaunay is a prophet of pvil, but, unfortunately, all his prophecies have hitherto come true. His speciality iB earthquakes, and* he predicts them only too surely. In 1877 he announced that that year would not conclude without violent disturbances of the'earth, and as a matter of fact the: frightful catastrophies on the coasts of South America followed. In 1883 M. Delaunay again pointed, to approaching earthquakes, and soon after the volcanic eruptions in the Indian- Arohipelago ocourred, by which thousands of human beings lost their lives', and hundreds ,of Square miles of terra firma were engulphed in the sea.- Towards the end of last year M. Delaunay once more raised his .warning voice; and the earthquakes in "Sn«--,j lip. Quite recently he! has prophesied very severe volcanic eruptions in 1888. |tw,l!g'|%ilir,e(i a well-nieriteo! notoriety lrttwetelling earthquakes, some weight qughttQ.be attached, to M. Delaunay's iittefaUoes; He' afflfras' that next year these natural phenomena will'be'of a very" interlse"character ) arid th'at'they. tKem'selveb either' when <he eartH'is. under' KeaJject influence. %l jj fte' firstrank, of a gMup'6{ a tiihet wlien sun and moon are newest to;: bW.-jpJinet at the satnfe,tinwi'-- , J life,"- '■). \\, "I"