VOLCANIO ERUPTION.
COLIMA. [Special to Press Association.] [Received August 13, at 7.30 p.m.] MEXICO, August 12. The great volcano of Colima, sixty miles from the city, is in eruption. It is feared that many people have been buried nnder the ashes. [Colima, the great volcano of the Cordilleras, which towers to a height of twelve thousand feet, is situated in the Mexican territory of Colima, and to the south-west of the volcano is the capital, also named Colima. Here there was once an old Indian town. The volcano burst out into violent activity on June 13, 1869, after a silence of forty-one years. The twenty-five thousand inhabitants of Colima are, for the most part, Indians and Mestizoes, with a very slight dash of Spanish blood. The houses are generally one-storied, with flat roofs. Iu the neighbourhood are magnificent fruit gardens, the exuberant splendour of their vegetation passing all description.]
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9492, 14 August 1891, Page 5
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