DISCOVERY OP A VOLCANO.
ADELAIDE, December 14. Mr David Lindsay, the explorer, returned from the Macdohnell Ranges on Saturday night. He says the men on the ruby fields there number 300, but prospecting and work of all kinds is at a standstill owing to toe absence of rain. At Alice Springs there has been no rain since February. He is confident that with water a rich field would be opened up. Mr Lindsay asserts that the statement made 'by the police that a volcano exists some 300 miles north-west of Alice Springs is correct. The blacks at Alice Springs, who come from tost part of the country, are so precise in their statement that Mr Lindsay is sure that there is a volcano there. The natives say a hole in toe locality indicated is always burning, and it growls and throws op sand and atones. They don't care to talk much about it, awuiting that it is not good,
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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7262, 23 January 1889, Page 3
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