THE TIDAL WAVE.
THE LATEST VERSION. FORMER REPORTS UNFOUNDED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 17th, 11.29 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 17. • The American ship Agnorf which has arrived nt Newcastle, confirms the news from New Zealand that there has been no disaster at Tahiti or the Society Islands. She left Tahiti twenty days ago—fourteen days after the reported disaster. On tlie morning of January 27th a small steamer, the Excelsior, arrived at Tahiti with some passengers from an island which the captain of the Agnor understood to be in a lowarchipelago, and utese -passengers stated that their island had been more than half inundated by a tidal wave, about five hundred people, principally natives, being lost.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11511, 18 February 1903, Page 8
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