A LIVELY COUNTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1485, 13 November 1874, Page 3

A LIVELY COUNTRY.

The little island of Niceros, in the Grecian Archipelago, is suffering under a constant supply of boiling water. Some months ago the inhabitants were seriously annoyed by a series of earthquakes, which did much damage, and culminated in the bursting open of the summit of the highest peak in the island, and a flood of steam and boiling water, which at one time led to the apprehension that not only would the whole island be destroyed, but every living creature contained in it. The mountain, however, suddenly ceased to boil over, and it was hoped that for some years at least there would be no recurrence of this disagreeable phenomenon. These hopes were unfortunately dissipated the other day when the mountain resumed its objectionable practices and emitted such volumes of boiling water that the position of the island has become almost unbearable. To add to their discomfort, the ground is convulsed wfth earth-

quakes, and at the date of the latest advices the people hadtaken to the open fields where they were safer than in their tottering houses. A scarcity of provisiens is added to their other troubles, and, without house?, without food, and with the prospect of being either scalded or starved to death, the condition of the good people of Eiceros is at the present time by no means enviable.