Mount Vesuvius Again in Eruption.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 125, 4 June 1885, Page 3

Mount Vesuvius Again in Eruption.

■Jr. roßk, May -I.—A cable special to *b"flerald from Romo, dated midnight ■jpiy 3rd, says : At 7 o'clock Saturday Jsing a new opening camo insido of •(fat Vesuvius, near tho Torre dol Greco, Hi kilonjelers from Naples. Lava :;|ai-uUy flowed from tho how.mouth, \m tbo grand crater only bolchcd reddish Xt, Scientific observers said in tho iii_g that there was no great danger, %me was a panic in Torro dol Greco, .Mate of which has been soveral times aped, fir.t in 1031, when many assS-ds perished ; again in June, ■ destroying tho cathedral, churches, H houses, and last in IS6I. Tlio '-jt-iats who witnessed this last '.Mi say that the presont appearjjjare like the beginning of that one. .ud or ashes have yet been soen, as in giiMn-Orablo eruption of 1577, when »ss of thoec reached Romo. Signor j&Palineri, the celebrated meteorologist ■iilDce 1354, has had the dircctien of •ITesuviart Observatory, and has written son tho efuptiohs, said this morning j_ correspondent: "Tho absenco of any iaoftrembling indicates no immediate ml eruption, and I think this is a light nth of the eruptive period bogihnhig in amber, 1875." Nevertheless the alarm -Jones at the town of Terro dol Greco like villogo of Casnaldoli to th 6 southii the lava is still flowing in groat HUM,