NEW SOUTH WALES.
Sydney, Tuesday. With (he exception of the Lambton and Cardiff collieries, all the Newcastle pits are working, The mail steamer brings a few additional particulars of the disastrous earthquakes In Japan. Over 73,000 lives were load. One hundred and fifty miles of the coast line were affected by the wave, and the whole of one town disappeared, 2973 houses being engnlphed. Professor Rochlble, of the Imperial University, at* tributes the wave to a landslip in what the geologists call a "taskarora"off tha coast. A huge cavity exists 600 miles long and 300 wide, with a depth of from 3000 to 4000 fathoms. The Blope In this "taskarora" is almost perpendicular, and a landslip would cause a glgantlo ware, s.s well as earthquake.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10361, 22 July 1896, Page 2
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