WHITI ISLAND.
AN UNUSUAL ; DISTURBANCE. .
(Per Press Association.)
.AUCKLAND, this clay. ' On Friday White Island 'was .in aii unus-tyl /■ 'statoJ-fef a activity . ' Immense clouds of stearii were issuing. This morning. '-dense white clouds -obscured the island, but from about noon, the clouds vanished, apd the island appeared to r4Vei"t .touts' riovmiif state, though jets, of black sjhoke were seen, issuing from the southern* end , of the it-land, signifying there hild been recently an unusulij disturbarice. . -.'* |
Captain Cornwall, of the New Zealafifh Shipping Cb.'s Kaipara, reports '"that J when passing White! sland on Thursday-J morning at 2 , o'clock pn her way from Auckland to Gisborne, . an inspiring i scene was witnessed. The Island appeared to be in eruption, high columns = of black smoke and flames of fire were seen j shooting us : - continuously from the Island. The magnificent sight could be seen 32 miles away. '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11840, 1 May 1909, Page 5
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144WHITI ISLAND. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11840, 1 May 1909, Page 5
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