96 L. A. COTTON. 



Naturally I was on the alert, and listened or waited for the 

 next diversion, but nothing else occurred. The time by 

 watch showed 8*25 p.m." 



Report of Fred. T. Berman of Five Dock. 



"Of a senior class of 56 pupils (the only class I thought 

 it advisable to collect evidence from) only four noticed it. 

 One boy stated that the glass doors at his home shook. 

 Another boy who was playing ludo with his father and 

 mother stated that one of the ludo buttons moved and the 

 table shook, making all look under the table to see if 

 another brother, who had left the room had crept under 

 the table to play a joke. At the same time a pet parrot 

 in a cage hanging from the ceiling "squeaked" from no 

 apparent cause. 



At my home in William Street, Ohatswood, of three 

 windows (set in one frame) in a wall running N.W. and 

 S.E. one only, the most northern, shook, probably for 45 

 seconds. The shaking mystified my wife and myself so 

 much that I went to inspect the windows thinking some 

 one was outside, shaking at it. My wife averred that the 

 floor vibrated, but I did not notice it. It was not until I 

 returned from my inspection outside that it dawned upon 

 me that an earthquake was probably the cause." 



Report of J. Drabble of Homebush. 



"The first thing to attract my attention was a sudden 

 explosive sound, dull and deep, like that of a tremendous 

 blasting charge fired a long way off. It was immediately 

 followed by the intense vibration of the whole cottage. The 

 vibration reached its maximum a few seconds after the 

 explosion, and then gradually subsided, the whole thing 

 lasting about half a minute. I was a good deal puzzled, 

 and went outside to listen, but everything was then 

 apparently tranquil." 



