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extended within a radius of about 250 miles from the origin. Septem- 

 ber 19, 1902, Class I, origin near Kangaroo Island. Some houses at 

 Warooka were wrecked, walls were cracked within a radius of one to 

 two hundred miles. Both earthquakes were considered due to fault 

 lines running north and south from Lake Torrens through Spencers and 

 St. Vincent Gulfs. A pamphlet on South Australian earthquakes is in 

 course of publication. 



Queensland. — The Hon. Sir Arthur Morgan, Lieut. -Governor, 

 reports that no records have been kept ; and for the last thirty-two years 

 at least Mr. J. B. Henderson says that Queensland has been singularly 

 free from such disturbances. 



Victoria. — Sir T. D. Gibson Carmichael writes that the Government 

 Astronomer is collecting information, which, when completed, will be 

 sent to Professor John Milne at Shide. 



New South Wales. — The Hon. G. B. Simpson reports that, so far 

 as State records show, no earthquake of sufficient severity to cause 

 damage has been experienced in New South Wales. 



Tasmania. — I I.E. Major-General Sir Harry Barron writes that lie 

 is informed by the Premier that no destructive earthquakes have 

 occurred in Tasmania within the memory of man. 



Canada. — The Secretary of State for External Affairs, the Hon. 

 Charles Murphy, says that the earthquake of 1663, which was felt 

 throughout the St. Lawrence Valley, was destructive. The earthquake 

 of October 1870 did slight damage to chimneys and ceilings, especially 

 at Baie St. Paul, on the north shore of St. Lawrence below Quebec. 



Cape of Good Hope.— The Et. Hon. Sir W. F. P. Hely-Hutchin- 

 son forwards two minutes from Ministers, but no earthquakes are 

 reported. 



Ceylon. — Sir H. E. McCallum says that so far as can be ascertained 

 there are no records of destructive earthquakes in Ceylon. Slight 

 shocks have stopped clocks and produced cracks in one or two houses. 



Cyprus. — Sir C. A. King-Harman states that although slight shocks 

 of earthquakes have occasionally been experienced, nothing of a destruc- 

 tive nature has occurred since the British occupation. 



Chile. — H.E. H. C. Lowther writes that the Director of the Seis- 

 mological Department is compiling a catalogue of earthquakes in Chile. 

 A provisional list of destructive earthquakes which have occurred in the 

 Southern Andes south of latitude 16, by Count de Montessus de 

 Ballore, will be found in British Association Eeport, 1910. 



China. — Sir John N. Jordan sends ' Catalogue des Tremblemenls 

 de Terre Signales en Chine d'apres les Sources Chinoises, 1767 B.C. 

 to 1895 a.d.,' par Le R. P. Pierre Hoang. A translation of extracts 

 from the ' Shun T'ien Fu Gazeteer,' which gives a list of earthquakes 

 from 1665 to 1883; a list of earthquakes in 1882. This is attached to 

 a paper by Dr. Macgowan, see ' China Review,' vol. 14, pp. 147-150. AH 

 this information will be incorporated in a catalogue of destructive earth- 

 quakes published by the British Association. This is now in the press. 



Colombia. — H.E. the British Minister, Francis W. Stronge, very 

 kindly forwarded a list, obtained from the Columbian Minister for 

 Foreign Affairs, of severe earthquakes felt in that Republic between 1625 



