ERUPTION OF TARAWERA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1292, 19 July 1886, Page 2

ERUPTION OF TARAWERA

AUCKLAND, July 17

Professor Thomas has returned from Ohiaematu, ifo reports that all the Paeora geysers are active. Yesterday he made hd inspec ion of the field of scoria boulders reported to have fallen at Pikerangi, between Si ere and Te Ngae. Two celebrated and favorite baths —Painkiller and the Priest’t Baths—are now for the present at leas'', rendered useless, on account of the general subsidence at the Ohinemutu end of the Rotorua Lake, which Is flowin > Into them. Mr Burrows, the District Engineer, has gone to visit the outlet of Like Rotorua, for the purpose of seeing if there is a possibility of deepening or of cutting a new channel altogether This lake has still another 18in to rise to bring it up to its normal winter level.

July 18. Professor Hutton arrived in Auckland to-night from the Lake country, with Professor Brown, and he considers the volcanic action gradually dying out, and believes vegetation will grow over the deposit at Wairoa, and make the district again inhabitable. He leaves for Christchurch by Tuesday’s steamer

Professor Brown has gone to Tauranga, with the view of going along the coast to Whakatanmeasuring the depth of the mud deposit, and collecting scientific data concerning the eruption. Wellington, Jaly 19.

The Governor has invited members of both Houses of the Legislature to discuss the Tarawera relief question.