A Volcano in Eruption.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 34, 6 July 1870, Page 6

A Volcano in Eruption.

On the 2nd inst. (says the Wellington Evening Pont) Dr Hector received a telegram from Mr Park, the telegraphist at Runanga, informing him that Tongariro had been in a state of active eruption for some days, and. that the red glare was visible from Runanga mountain, and also from the north end of Taupo Lake, fie afterwards received a further telegram, stating that the flame is increasing, and that a sound like thunder is distinctly heard at Tapuaeharuau, and occasionally even at Runanga, which is situated fifty miles in a direct line from Tongariro. The telegram states that there are two points of eruption, one on the top, and the other on one side of the mountain. Dr Hector informs us that in January last there appears to hav„e been a discharge of hot ashes which melted the snow on the slopes of Ruapehu, and that in October a red glow was observed to be reflected from the clouds overhanging the cone. In 1867 the natives told him that in the month of May in that year, flames were seen to issue from Ngauruhoe, attended by an eruption of ashes which reached as far north as Henemaia, or thirty-five miles in a straight line,- covering the ground with a white dust, like snow. The last marked eruption attended by loud noises which the natives reported was in 1855, when the Taupo district, and even the waters of the lake, were covered with several inches of black dust. The showers of ashes that on this occasion fell into the Rotoaira, a small lake between the volcano and Taupo, were so dense as to poison the fish. Judging from this information, the present eruption appears to be mere violent than any of those mentioned above, and may, perhaps, be attended with a discharge of lava, which has never previously been observed in connection with this volcano.

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