ERUPTION OF TARAWERA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1270, 22 June 1886, Page 2

ERUPTION OF TARAWERA

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Botobua, Jane 21.

Mr Biscawen is still here, owing to tiie unsettled weather. He is endeavouring to procure concentrated essencejof meat so aa to be able to abandon bis camp for two days and work round the back of the Tara* wera Ranges.Jg He and Morgan leave early to morrow again for his camp, if the weather admits, with the intention of going on and finishing the snspection of the volcanoes at Botomahana later. Mr Bos* cawen informs me that after breaking np his camp yesterday at Pakera to fall back on Rotorua till the weather got |be tar, be went over to Kaiteriria with the inten-

tlon of going to Wairoa by the Lake Kotokakahi track to make sketches of Wairoa. On reaching Kaiteriria and proceeding along the track, he found himself completely blocked by landslips, and he and Morgan, the gnlde, were compelled to return on their track and fall back on Rotorua via Kaiteriria. A Native woman named Roka has died on the island of Makoia, and the Natives here held a tangi. Several Native women are still ill from nervousness in consequence of the volcanic eruption. A new mud geyser has arisen in a spot visited by Mr Boicawen. The latter #ot to the black lakelet named Topbet, composed of liquid mud, with naptha-like looking matter floating on the surface. By joining hands Mr Boscawen reached the margin and procured spec mens of the mud. Shortly after reaching Whakarewarewa the new geyser began to play magnificently, throwing up a column of boiling water forty feet in the air. Mr Boscawen got an excellent sketch of it. The party had to wait for a 101 lin the action of the geyser, as torrents of boilings water from the geyser ware pouring over the hot t<rraced ledges, and clouds of steam cut of their return to the path by which they reached it. Auckland, June 22. Captain May, Mrs May, and party left Rotorua ou Sunday for Wairoa to get out goods from their buried house. News was brought last night by one of the party that they are hemmed in at Wairoa by mad avalanches, brought down by heavy tain. Nine lurses It is ezp:c ed are dead from starvation, but the patty sheltared in Sophia’s whare, wtll provisioned. A rescue party has started to relieve them

A severe akock of earthquake was felt this m irning. The weather is still unsettled. The position of the party at Walroa is very dangerous.