The St. Kilda Borough • Council h'as>. signified its approval of the grant of 20 acres of the Sandhills recently made by the Government to the Otago Agricultural: and Pastoral Association. Fishermen prosecuting their calling io> Port Chalmers during Friday night, re ported that some remarkable fluctuations* of the tide were observed. It was low. water and the banks were bare, but seve ral times the water rose two feet and^ receded. The opinion was hazarded thate some volcanic disturbance would be- heard? of, and our cable messages this =. week: show that Java has been visited by-simi lar waves, but of more destructive dimen sions. No date is given for the pheno menon but that of the messages makes itr; very probable -that the same influence. muu&. at, work in both instances^.
August 31, 1883.
THE CLUTHA. LEADER.
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