TIDAL WAVE.
(Bv EIIXTHIC TKr-BUHAI'H—COI'VRIGHT.) COOKTOWN, March 27. Tun Gorman steamer Othello left Finchaven on the 3rd M:ireh for New' Britain, with a party of 22, to select a site for planting co!i'-e. The steamer returned on the 15th to take them oil again, but no one appeared. The captain landed, and found a scene of great; destruction. Large trees were floating about in the harbour, and only five Kanakas remained, and all they could say \vks that they had been three days up trees and nothing to ear. From the in arks on shore it is supposed that an eruption had happened, followed by a tidal wave 40 feet higi>. All the building material and stores lnd disappeared, but a later search pa; ty found some clothes and boots of the expedition. It is supposed that all have perished. At Finehaven the tidal wave was five feet high, and came on the 13th, doing ■some damage
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2452, 29 March 1888, Page 2
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157TIDAL WAVE. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2452, 29 March 1888, Page 2
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