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106 THE GREAT TIDAL WAVE, MAY, 1877. 
to 18 inches. The tide pulsations were very apparent up and 
down, and that, too, with a strong flood tide running—the rise 
sometimes being as much as 15 tadhies to 20 inches in half as 
al minutes, whilst the ebb was nearly as great. This action 
action stirred the harbour to its depths, and rendered the 
the time. He also timed and measured one of the pulsations, 
and found the rise to be quite 15 inches in about eight (8) 
minutes, whilst the recoil was about 9 inches in a similar time. — 
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disturbance was also noticed at the Heads. The pilot 
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From this it would seem that the fiuctuations were not closely 
observed at the Heads, which is to oi regretted, as they would 
doubtless ae been more decided ther 
Napier, 11th—A special telegram sr that there was a great 
tidal tnturbane all through “last night at Gisborne, This 
morning, at 2°45, at 2 ebb tide, the tidal wave came over the bay, 
and rose 8 feet above the top of the hull of the “Go-a-head.” The 
men to save their own lives had to fly to the rigging. The wave 
n up eens . At 9°45 Aisee was eat Bi 
and almost imm tely cacaunts a fourth. The weather was 
fine, oe _ icaae blowing, and the water in the bay was 
much a 
eT 11th.—Since before 8 o'clock this morning a tidal 
wave was noticed, its rise and fall be ead — 4 feet, and the 
action and reaction occupying about 15 minutes. It is still going 
on, but increasing. At the reclamation ines where the water 
is confined to an incompleted breastwork, the tide rushed in and 
out with a force resembling the tide at the French Pass 
Christchurch, 11th.—There was a strange tidal disturbance this 
morning in Lyttleton a co. From 7 till 1 o’clock the water 
has been rising and falling in an unusual manner, at times rising 
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3 feet in a few minutes, sna rfaling equally rapidly. No age 
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has been done. It was felt at Waimakariri also, and at Timaru. 
Hecht 11th.—A ose wave was experienced here this — 
when it was nearly dead low, water. 
great force and receded in 5 minutes, the 
rise 3 re iat tema . The waves per ming in at 
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