EARTHQUAKES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3515, 21 October 1868, Page 3

EARTHQUAKES.

We learn, from the arrival of the s.s. ' John Perm' in the Manukau yesterday, that the shock of earthquake experienced in this province on Monday morning last was also felt off Cape Egmonfc with much greater force. At a few minutes after 12 o'clock, whiJsb about a dozen miles from shore, the steamer experienced a sudden shock, startling all on board, and the captain involuntarily calling out that the vessel had struck upon a rock. The steamer gui" vered from stem to stern for several seconds. An order wa<j at once given to |>ut the helm hard a-starboard, and the lead was thrown, but uo soundings were met with. The cause of the shook was then discovered. It 19 feared the damage done by the earthquake in the southern portion of the colony will be most serious ; and we anxiously look for further particulars by the 'Rangatira,' now due. A slight shock of earthquake was also experienced at Whangauui on the morning of the 12th instant, at about 10 o'clock. The Tliames Advertiser writes of the earthquake : "We are happy to learn, from inquiries made, that no damage resulted, although many extraordinary changes were observed in the ornaments and light ware of dwellings, on the family rising in the morning, which were not to be accounted for, aud severallnhabitants of tent« near the sea shore were alarmingly disturbed from their slumbers by the unmistakable shock." A correspondent writes to us from East Tamaki: — "It may be interesting to those who were sound asleep at 12 10 a.m., to learu that we had rather a protracted earthquake shock about that time. The motion, of an oscillating description, was from north to south, aad of quite fifteen seconds' duration. —Monday, October 19, 1868."