FRESH VOLCANIC ACTIVITY.
SEA BOTTOM DISTURBED. Per Press Association. Auckland, December 6. An Apia correspondent says the volcano on Savaii continues to throw out enormous quantities of lava and it is highly probable that a large area under the sea is being thrust upward. A trader who lately passed over this section of the sea bottom was astonished to note during the night that lightnings were 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 west to east. It is not at all unlikely that a new, perhaps very terrible, eruption will break out under the sea at the point indicated.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 7 December 1907, Page 2
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134FRESH VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 7 December 1907, Page 2
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