We take the following from the Ju Mait of Tuesday (80th July):—Kiushu has been visited bya cruel calamity. The Oficial Gazette of yesterday reports that at 49 minutes past eleven on the night of the 28th instant, a violent earthquake occurred in Kumamoto, the chief town of the province of Higo, celebrated in ancient times for its huge castle—ranking next to the great fortresses of Osaka, Tokio and Nagoys Exact particulars of the catastrophe a not yet to hand. We are told only that the earth was fissured in several places, that houses were levelled; that there were lives lost as well as minor injuries inflicted, and that at the time when the telegram was despatched, namely forty minutes past four on the morning of the 29th instant, the rumbling of the ground had not ceased. appears from a telegram to the Nippon that prior to the 26th inst. noises were heard from Aso-yama; and curiously enough, the Tokio Shimpo, in its issue of the 29th inst., published before the receipt of the news of the catastrophe in Higo, related that in the bouring province of Bungo, in the districts of Takanami and Kani-funaki, me seres, began t crack on the 28th of the, throughout a space of about
last month, and that the phenomenon continued until the whole surface was covered with a net-work of fissures. The people of the neighbourhood were described as being in state of great anxiety. Bungo does not possess any volcano included in the "active" list, but Higo has the celebrated Aso-yama, the only "active" voleano, in the island of Kiuehu. Thie mountain ripe
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