Earthquake of 24 June 1891
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
1891 p576: Notes on the Earthquake of the 24th June 1891
by George HOGBEN.

10.52am	Mercer: a chimney partly shaken down. Cups swung on 
	hooks for some time after shock. Horses alarmed. 
	No previous tremor or warning.

10.53am	Thames: Telegraph lines outside office oscillated. 
	No previous tremors or rumblings or premonitions
	of any kind. The shocks were sudden.

10.53am	Cambridge: A few clocks stopped, and a few glasses 
	knocked off a shop shelf. No previous warnings.
	Shock came suddenly. Several persons heard rumbling
	as shake approached.

10.54am	Helensville: Crockery broken, and other articles 
	thrown down and displaced, causing people to rush 
	out of houses. 

10.54am	Auckland: clocks stopped. Crockery thrown down 
	and broken. Several chimneys reported overthrown. 
	Bricks dislodged from a badly built brick wall.
	Loud rumbling noise immediately preceded and
	accompanied the shock. Professor ALDIS corroborates
	time; mentions second shock ten, fifteen or thirty
	minutes later; very slight. Direction observed
	precisely N. to S. Vibrations of water in a pail
	in kitchen E to W., approximately.

10.55am	Tauranga: Clocks stopped in post office. The rumble
	distinctly heard, say, a second or so before the
	shock felt. Window-sash weight could be heard
	knocking against wall.