SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE "WAIKATO TIMES."

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 25, 27 June 1872, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE "WAIKATO TIMES."

BROADEN SIGNED CONTRACTS.FOR * NEWMARKET AND MERCER RAILWAY. Tuesday Morning. Mr. Brogden lias signed the contract for the Mercer and Newmarket lines. » — THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. Naples, April 28. Thesky seems hidden, and the fall of ashes has re-commenced. Advices received from several neighbouring communes state that showers of ashes had fallen there also, but had now ceased. The ashes had reached as far as Caeerta. April 29. Up to midnight yesterday the shower of ashes from Mount Vesuvius continued to fall. The mountain is invisible, and rumbling noises are still heard. The statement that fresh craters had opened is incorrect. The shower of ashes from Mount Vesuvius has been accompanied in several localities by stones. In some places the ashes cover the ground two inches deep. The journals praise Professor Palmieri, who has remained at his post in the Observatory to watch the. eruptions. The people are sad, but calm. . . , April 29. Mount! Vesuvius is displaying terrible electric, phenomena, marked by flashes of lightning and vibrations of the earth. Here and at Circolai there is -a, perfect rain of sand, and at Massa Somma a rain of scoria?. ... Afternoon. Professor Palmieri telegraphs frotri" the observatory'to-day, at noon, as follows:— " Scoriae in great abundance has fallen in the direction of the observatory. The instruments at the observatory are very unquiet. The projectiles from the volcano rise to a height of more than a kilometre. The lava has ceased to flow." ; ■■■■■•■ <