



76 ' Transactions. — Geology. 



Nelson District. 



Nelson. — No damage done. A few bricks are said to have 

 been dislodged frojn the top of a chimney, but this has not 

 been confirmed. 



Maruia Plains. — The Eeefton Guardian says that it is 

 reported that the effects of the earthquake were of a very 

 serious nature at Walker's station, in the Maruia, but I have 

 not been able to learn anything more about it. 



Lycll. — No damage was done. 



Westport. — No chimneys were thrown down, but two in 

 course of erection were cracked. No damage was done to the 

 lighthouse at Cape Foul wind. There was no sea- wave. 



Boatman's. — No damage done. 



Eeefton. — No chimneys suffered, but some glass and 

 crockery was thrown from shelves and broken. Tlie shock 

 was severely felt by miners in the Progress Mine :• the timbers 

 creaked, and strange noises issued from the ground. 



Greymouth. — Several old and badly-built chimneys fell. 

 They seemed, from the indications on the mortar, to have 

 been screwed off from the north-east towards the south, in 

 some instances showing signs of quite a tliird of the arc 

 between the two points mentioned. The greater portion of 

 the bricks fell on the southern sides of the chimneys. The 

 tall brick chimney of the engine-house of the hydraulic cranes 

 was uninjured, as also was the Catholic church. A good 

 deal of glass and crockery was thrown down and broken. In 

 the teacher's house at Dunganville the school-register was 

 thrown a considerable distance a little south of west. 



The shock is stated to have been more severely felt in the 

 inland districts. There was no sea-wave. 



Hokitika. — Chimneys were thrown down in the Odd 

 Fellows' Hall and Police Camp, and several others w^ere 

 cracked. There was no sea-wave. 



The conclusions that may be drawn from this statement of 

 facts are — (1) that, except in the neighbourhood of the centre 

 of impulse, the only damage was to buildings put up with bad 

 mortar, or faulty in construction; (2) that cob stands the 

 shock better than brick or stone with bad mortar ; and (3) 

 that houses on alluvial gravels, &c., suffered more, 2)ari passu, 

 than those on solid rock. Other points connected with this 

 part of the subject will be considered further on. 



Fissures, Landslips, etc. 



These were formed chiefly in the valleys of the Hope and 

 Waiau-ua Eivers. On th* Haniner Eiver there were a few 

 small cracks near the edge of the terraces, and a few others 

 on an island in the bed of the Percival: all these appear to 



