VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
DESTRUCTIVE TIDAL WAVE.
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Cooktown, March 27. The German steamer Othellio leffi Finchaven on the 3rd March for New Britain, with a party of 22, to select a site for planting coffee. The steamer returned on the 15th to take them off again, but no one appeared. The captain landed, and found a scene of great destruction. Large trees were floating about in the harbour, and only five Kanakas remained, and all they could say was that they had been three days up trees with nothing to eat. From the marks on shore it is supposed that an eruption had happened, followed by a tidal wave 40 feet high. All the building material and stores had disappeared, but a later search party found some clothes and boots of the expedition. It is supposed that _ all have perished. At Finchaven the tidal wave was five feet high, and came on the 13th, doing some damage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9013, 28 March 1888, Page 5
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