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Show 6evere Earthquakes in New Zealand. New Zealand news received by steamer gives details of great destruction destruc-tion of property in the Cheviot district by an earthquake on November 18. In the town of Cheviot and country, the damage will reach 20,000. Scarcely a building was left standing. The fine homestead of Sir George Clifford was wrecked. Great fissures opened in the earth and water issued from them. In one office the heavy safe was thrown across the room and brick chimneys fell like toy houses. The people are panic-stricken as the shocks still continue. con-tinue. At Wailan river great cracks opened in the river bed, into which water poured. Then they closed and volumes of water were sent hundreds of feet into the air. |
