DAMAGE NORTH OF CHEVIOT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7257, 19 November 1901, Page 1

DAMAGE NORTH OF CHEVIOT.

A ' correspondent writes : — The most severe- earthquake on record in the Bort.lis.rii ■ii strict took place 'i'n tie pastoral ars-a immediately north of the Cheviot settlement, asfc 7.40 a.m., on Saturday morning. The shakes continued! at frequent intervals — say Vbraa or four am, hour all vSaturdiay, Saturday and up to .time of writing (6 a.m. Sunday). Most people camped (•sleep was out of the question) in the shelter of flax bushes, etc. At Mondip flills, all the chdmnieys are down, also the drawing-room and a large bedroom, adjoining, and the rest of the house more or less wrecked. Nearly a thousand poim.dK ■vc.vt'h of damage has been done to furnir'ura, china, glass, plate, etc., caused '.ir^ely by the fall of large concrete chini-■■•,-eis." The w wished and wool store burst-,-vX on onie side letting out part of the •vool. A large Carlyle woolprcss ft 11. '•''•efcty much the same *?oi«i> of thing Ira* uken place at Mount Parnassus, Hii-wks-•.-»3<J, Feraiehurst and Bruokdale stations, :L .moulds of pounds worth of damage ,4;ng- done. No fatal accidents have oc--iiiTed, but there have been mamy narrow ■y-capes. The counitoy is full of small ;i-aures, mostly from half an inch to am 'jc-h wide, but in some instances up to four -.v-hes. 'After each severe shake jestertay (Saturday) a cloud of dust rose. Some )i'fhe cuttings on the loads are blocked. The cliffs and banks along the streams

hava been much knocked about, and. seme d.aanaga diomia to the fences. Hawksrwood dssltd'cb- has hitherto been looked upon as estira safe, so iiar as earthquakes are concerned. At the time of the Jianmer Plains big shake in 1888 no damage Was pone whatever. \