REPORTED VOLCANIC OUTBREAK.
♦ [by telegraph, press association.] Greymouth:, Thursday. Captain Connor, of the St. Kilda, from -Melbourne, reports that two active volcanoes are burning down South, ono on this side of Mount Cook, and the other near the Cliff Head. He says both are on the peaks of the mountains, about 20,000 feet high, and they are covered with smoke during the day-time,.and the fire can easily be seen at night. He also reports that between Greymouth and Hoki tika for about 15 miles along the coast, the eea is covered with dead barracouta. Captain Bignall, of the Waipawa, who knows the country well, says that the volcanoes reported by Captain Connor are simply fires caused by the settlers burning scrub.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5483, 13 June 1879, Page 5
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