GISBORNE SHAKEN

Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12930, 29 October 1914, Page 4

GISBORNE SHAKEN

Press Association—By Telegraph.

GISBORNE, Oct. 28. A severe earthquake was felt 'at 11.47 a.m. The ground shook in an alarming manner, and people in the grandstand at the Poverty Bay Show lost no time in making for the open. The quake was long and steadv, and lasted fully a minute. Tokomasu Bay again suffered heavily, the Farmers'' Co-operative Stores, which sustained conisderable damage in the last quake, being again reduced to chaos. At Mr Keen's house chimneys fell througk the roof, carried away the kitchen ceiling, smashed a table, and went clean through the floor. At Pauriki Mr George Busby's station, a bricklayer had just finished rebuilding three chimneys shaken down in the last quake, and was having a smoke preparatory to leaving the job, when the were again thrown down. It lis reported that Potu'ru homestead was Jfeplit clean in two. Chimneys are down in all directions, and there were innumerable land slides all along thehills, the great clouds of dust giving' the appearance of huge bush fires. The Mangahaore stream is still much discoloured as the result of land slides in; the back country. Strangely enough it was exactly three weeks ago to-day that the last big quake -did so much, damage. No loss of life is reported.