THE SHOCK AT KAIKOURA.
A RUMBLING NOISE FELT.
Kaikoura, August 30. Ab ten o'clock on Thur&day night a sharphh &hock of earthquake was felt here, but al> twelve minutes past four this murning the heaviest shock known here occurred, the direction oeing from W.N.W. to E.S.E. A loud rumbling noise was heard, succeeded by a wave-like motion for a second or two, then came a heavy upheaval followed by iurther undulations. Buildings: were shaken in an alarming manner for fully sixty seconds. Shortly I afterwards two less pronounced, but distinct, shocks occurred at varying intervals Several people rushed outside scantily clothed. i The extent of the damage, so far as is known, is the destruction of one or two chimneys, the cracking of others, and it is reported the breakintr of statuary in the Roman Catholic Church,
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 296, 5 September 1888, Page 5
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