GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9480, 6 December 1907, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

VOLCANO UNDER THE SEA.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, December 6. An Apia correspondent writes that the volcano on Savaii continues to throw out enormous quantities of lava. It is highly probable that a large area under the sea is being thrust upwards. A trader who lately passed over this section of the sea bottom was astonished to note during night time that lightning was apparently playing about on the ocean bottom, some 40 fathoms or so beneath his boat. Some of the sea water which came into the boat was so hot as to nearly scald his crew. Apparently the line of volcanic activity runs from the west to the east, and it is not at all unlikely that a new and perhapß a very terrible eruption will break out under the 6ea at the point indicated.