VOLCANIC CATASTROPHES.
• »■ , '• -r. Tbe interior of tbe world is.'seem^ irigly jn' a troubled condition. Reports . come from all the , volcanic regions' which point to thet existence' of terrible internal throes. Within a , short period of the disastrous^ catas* trophe at Ischia, so. fatal to. human life, a Violent eruption occurred 'atone' ~ -of the most' active volcanoes* in the Malayan Archipelago, thdt in the Island of Krakatoa. The effects have , been felt far and wide. Owing to the i thick rain of ashes iwhica' fell from I the volcano, Batavia was for hours in I darkness. At North 'Bantam incalculable mischief was*done,and showers iof black mud and pumice stone have nearly ruined the crops. 'ißottdg&icl bridges are destroyed, and tele- ' graphic ' ' communication stopped. (The horror of the catastrophe was heightened by a tidal wtfve,!the worst feature /of an earthquake? (which" $& destroyed the European and Chirfeae quarters at North Bantam.,, Thd present will add another memorable disaster to; the, volcanic! history' of these sorely-t vexed parts. Bufc this 'last, bad as it is, has been outdone in former times. A hundred years ago _ Java was. visited by a volcanidtdisturb- .' ance, during which three mountain peaks, broke, into eruption at .the same time, and although two were upwaftdjs of three hundred miles apart there is no doubt they were affected by tbV same movement. The chief mountain of the Island was simply annihilated and disappeared, so that after the sub> sidence of the earthquake* vast hollow ninety square miles in size was found ■in place 1 of the^peak. With it forty' villages '- were "destroyed, 'buried with ; their inhabitants under the fragments.' Ncrr is Java the only district liable t6' these cataclysms. New Guinea is also a volcanic island, and a little better acquaintance with it is perhaps desir^ able before it is opened, up for, Bpitish. occupation.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IV, Issue 633, 25 October 1883, Page 2
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337VOLCANIC CATASTROPHES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IV, Issue 633, 25 October 1883, Page 2
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