EARTHQUAKE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3841, 25 June 1891, Page 2

EARTHQUAKE.

Alum In Auoklaaa. Injury to Bulldlags. , i [By Teleoraph.] •' (Per Pres9 Association.) Auckland, June 24. An earthquake occurred just before * 11 o'ctock to-day. The direction of , the tremor was apparently from about S.E. to N.W., and lasting for about twenty seconds. The shock was accompanied by.a distinctly perceptible rumble, and residents- in the suburbs describe the sound as that of a heavily laden waggon passing over the road.. Those who timed the shock state that there were two earthquakes —one slightand theother immediately following rather more severe. Nearly every building in town vibrated more or less with the shock, and the oscillation in some of the larger brick buildings in the city Beemed to have rather alarmed the occupants who ran out in the streets. Quite large numbers ot people complained of headache ol'v nausea, after tho Bhock. The shock caused the new Custom house buildings to osoillate rather violently, but the only damage done was a rent in the ceiling of the building in the Survey Department. Ttie curator of the Auckland Museum says the shook ,is about the most severe yet experienced in Auckland. Very little damage was caußed in town by the earthquake, the inguries to the buildingß most affected being chiefly confined to falls of plaster at Collins Bros,' establishment, Police Barracks, the Newton Savings Bank, &c. Iq the New Zealand Insurance Co.'s Victoria; Arcade a large plate| glass window of Faravel'B, barber, j was fractured throughcint in various | directions. The shock was felt at Otahuhu, where the public > schools were dismissed through the • shaking of the building. At •• Waiuku, Huntley, Hamilton, and Cambridge there was a great rush of Maoris out of the Native Lands Court, Singular to say at Rotorua the earthquake was not felt. At Raglan tho Natives heard aloud report out at sea, which gave rise to the conjecture that a submarine explosion had taken place off the coast. The shook was *-also felt up at the Northern Wairoa. ,