AN EARTHQUAKE.
4000 LIVES LOST.
SYDNEY, November 16, Eastern news to hand states that, by an earthquake, following on the tidal wave in the Island of Ceram, over 4000 lives were lost and 500 injured. [Ceram is an island of the Molucca- group, 180 miles long; population about 150,000. This news merely confirms a London cable oi October. laTJ, '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2385, 23 November 1899, Page 13
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59AN EARTHQUAKE. Otago Witness, Issue 2385, 23 November 1899, Page 13
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