THE EARTHQUAKES AT CHEVIOT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7257, 19 November 1901, Page 2

THE EARTHQUAKES AT CHEVIOT.

The series of earthquake shocks whioh started on Saturday morning, and whioh (have continued at intermittent intervals up to the time of writing, have been felt in varying degrees of intensity in different districts. It is at Cheviot, however, that the dhief interest centres at the present moment, for there the disturbance has been of an unusually severe description. With Cheviot, andi the earthquake visitation, the principal topic of conversation, special interest attaches to the current issue of tbe "Canterbury Times," in which will be found an excellent pictorial record of the effect of the shocks in the unfortunate district. Th© special photographer sent to the scene of the disaster obtained a series of splendid! views, which give a clearer idea than could be gathered' from columns of description of the effect of the shock on the Cheviot district. Among the view* taken are two of Mr M'Taggart's butchery, the proprietor of which just escaped! when Saturday morning's shock reduced the building to ruins. Penberthy's Hotel diningroom is depicted, or, to be more correct, whafc was left of it after the shock, as the room is a wreck, and -the same remark applies to the schoolroom, in. which the desks are lying round in hopeless confusion. At Scott'a Commercial Hotel the windows were broken, and the building was twisted out of shape, and damaged beyond repair. Another picture shows the house in which the child was killed, this also being a complete wreck. There is also a view of the road to Port Robinson, showing 'the great fissures in the road. Taken altogether, the views provide the best indication that has been given of the devastation caused by the earthquakes in t!he Cheviot district.