LATER PARTICULARS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 156, 12 June 1886, Page 3

LATER PARTICULARS.

L Aucklakd, June 1 1 — 1 a.m. Telegraphic communication with Rotorua is now stopped. The line , is down between there andMaketu. The laet news received was that four volcanoes are still active, and that everytlung in the vicinity is totally wrecked. Mount Tarawera is throwing lava down on Wairoa, six miles distant. Rotorua Lake has risen considerably, many springs breaking out. The lateat report gives the- loss of lives among Europeans at forty. "WBLLXtroxoJf, June 1 1 — 7.25 p.m. The following information has been received frem the North .—News just toghaad. There is no hope for Tapahf re, To Ariki, and Moara natives settlements .70 are are known to be at the two latter places. I expect the deaths of natives will, exceed 100. I fear that ViixAK. ikt Burt, who is •upposed to have camped near the foot of Mount Tarawera that night •nL his way ta Galatea has perished. His two horses have found their way home. The craters eu Ruawahia and its twin cone are eniitiug. "volumes, of dense smoke. RotdiMabcnaLake isa seething roaring- mass «f water, the clouds of steam from which Arise several thousand foot high. A; number of wilhng hands wore digging for bodies at Wairoa to-duy. An attempt will, however, be made to ' «xamijae the native settlements I have ■neutioned. Mr Meßae informs me that he extinguished at least 10 balls of firo which came crashing through ttie roof during the night, igniting everything they, came into contact vith. The Tuheurangi tribe are quite destitute of clothing, food, and whares. I Will telegraph again this evening.— Tileohafhist, Rotorua. Telegram* from. Te Puke, 25 miles fi^ Rotorua, say tiiat the country is desolated. The feed is all covered up and ihe oattle are- starving The Government have been asked to send proceed hay to Tauranga. Te Puke is one Of Mr Vessey Stewart's special 1 •ettlcments. Rotobua, Thit Day Tekupa and his hapu who lived at "Wairoa are safe. , There were nine Natives killed and six Europeans, hut it is supposed the greater part, of th*; Tuhourangi and Ngatiraugitihi hapu' are all . lost. The number of persona missing is 100. The bodiesof Haaard and his ohildren were dug up, covered by 4 feet of mud, and very much «rush«»d. Some native* dug up a peraom who had been scratching hard for the last 48 hours, and who popped his head through .the mud this afternoon, none the worse. Bambridge is not jet found. The other settlements are unapproachable. Kikitiera, opposite Ohinemutu, on the other side of the Lake Rotorua, has broken oui into violent eruption. , ._^_ .