RAIN LEAVES DEPOSIT.
PHENOMENON IN THE SOUTH,
AN ERUPTION SUGGESTED.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN COBBESPONBEXT.j INVEKCABGILL. Saturday. A peculiar feature of the steady, warm rain which fell in Invercargill during Friday evening was that it was accompanied by a yellow deposit like powdered iaU phur. The water lying in the channels this morning bore a surface coating and as it receded a yellow line indicated the "high-water mark" on the kerbing. Laymen are puzzled to account for the phenomenon. Three months ago there waa a violent earthquake in the vicinity o£ Matquarie Islands, more violent, according to the Sydney Observatory than was the earthquake in Japan. It & suggested that possibly an eruption foilowed and that the deposit in the rain* water is volcanic dust arising from suca a source. Experience has shown that iS| severe upheavals volcanic dust has been carried by air currents for. hundreds an| even thousands of miles.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18814, 15 September 1924, Page 6
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