EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15111, 29 October 1914, Page 2

EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

.DAMAGE-IN POVERTY BAY. (rEESS ASSOCIATION TEI.EGJIAM.) GISBORxNE, October 28. _ A severe earthquake was felt at 11.47 a.m. ta<lay. Tue ground snook in an aiarining manner, and tne pcopio in tho granastand at tiie Tovercy Show lost no time in matjiug'ior tue open. IUG-movement, was i«.<g am* Steady, and lasioU luny a uuniue. Tokomaru iiay again sulieieu noavily. In tue i'anueis' coop, stores, wiiicb. sustainea consideiaD.e dauiage in the last • earthquake, the conteius were again mixed up on the floor. Ay Mr Kain's house cc chimneys fell through the roof, carried away the kitchen ceiliivg, smashed a table, and went clean through the floor: Oates Bros , , store was damaged, also the doctor's new residence. AtPouriki, Mr Georgo Busby's station, a bricklayer had just finished rebuilding the chimneys, which were brought down by the last earthquake, and -was having a smoke preparatory to leaving the job, when the chimneys were again thrown down. It is reported that the Potururu hiTjtstead was split clenn in two. Chimneys came down in .all directions, and thcro wee innumerable landslides all alon<r the bills, great clouds of dust ffiving tl;o appearance of huge bushfires. .

The ivrnnrrfilrsore strenm is still ttnir-h as a result'of land m tbe bnck country.

StrantreV • enovtah. it wns exaotlv wooks aco to-<!ay thp last bio , pfirtl>annlcc> did so rruoh damnrre.

Pnrf-, Awamii ronort? that the rbiiiTiev; rfV'iU after the Inst ■o-Pt-p <-7o«.vn. nurl considerable f!,i r "!fe do'io to Iwise'kolrl iroods.

Hoaw nnt] =us*"ninc?d ptr>eri>ncofl vi nr,ri Hastings, and a slight shock in