WAIMANGUS' RENEWED VIGOUR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2436, 15 April 1915, Page 3

WAIMANGUS' RENEWED VIGOUR

VISITORS' UNIQUE EXPERIENCE. • (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Y Rotorua, April 13. It appears that a party, of nine visitors had the unique experience of. witnessing the renewed outburst of Waimarigu Geyser yesterday, after its cleiven years' rest. They were standing on the top of a hill overlooking tha old crater, and the guide was explaining its former activities, when a rumbling noise was heard, followed by the sound'of'a muffled yet terrific report. A few seconds later, with another terrific report; a whole mass, was hurled in the air, rocks weighing in some cases as . much aa five tons being sent 300_ and 400 feet high. Other material, rising in a heavy "dark brown' mass, was sent to a height of 700 ft., and white vapour rose another 300 ft.

There were no developments at W_aimangu to-day, but the fissures on the sides of the new crater are gradually extending, and the area of seething mud and boiliiig water is likely to. extend. The cracks and the issuing steam render the blowhole unapproachable. There is increased activity in the crater, at the top of the hill behind the shed, and a new crater a few yards in circumference appeared, both sending forth a black dense mass of earth and vapour when the eruption occurred. To-day some slight activity is noticeable.

Miss Ethel Mary Lewis (Otaki), a New Zealand-trained nurse, is' proseeding to Servia with a party;on- an; English transport (says a Honie writer). Miss Lewis was Home on siKtaonths' leave, and she has now obtajurejl six months' extension. :s?■" Our Napiar correspondent telegraphs: Mr. Stanley Hannah, sou ofwMr. W. Hannah, of Napier, was married to Miss I.eila Dolbel. daughter of jijfye. late Richard Dolbel, nf Napier. - r -