VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 17 June 1886, Page 2

VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS.

LATER PARTICULARS. PITIFUL STORIES OP DAZED 'RISKS RUN Bt EXPLORERS^ an artist nearly enquired in ;the crater. >■■*!■ \ ■ — TE ARIKE AND MOARAf*%Li> « ■;••'• >:-: LAGES BLOTTED OUT. ■*$. ■••jS.tf m *:*i*;ir»v:^L*~*eH;i*:K«t ni ,}, '•<-«* SKfttjss?. ' r* iinl'iniiiijui [PEBjtI?nT?D PRESS ASSbCUTIOW.] , '-, H> \ A Maori woman i^uedi^mWii-o r. hanga told a r WairoA natiy eJfel^ (^ I she an<l her husband ; were, in a-^rg^^*", house 'at"Waihahga: The' hq9s*lfeH^;@ c , and her husband -was killed/ ••: In thj^.4 morning she tried to get^fa^ATpra,^.,' a^id was struck badiy by fa^n^-mud;^ /, ; but she staggered on in a dazed stateV,,: in the direction 1 of Waird» iifl *f<|un4: £ by the natives, but has no r«cpllection;v -r where. The Maori Tolwnga/ Tuhoto, is getting well at the hotpit«l>S and can now Sit up : and; talk. -lEhefe-:.. heavy rug he had on whei^ emtoaabjs4>i4 kept hiinw^nn, and a^ui^^Jjk^ beng found after, hip long:t»p6|n^: i . in tiuvh good condition. - s ■ . ; ;^* ■; ■.".*■ The contractor for the Rbtoruai . water worjks, If r GuUen^ reports ||»s>tt^ there are only about a doion :tam^pvfsm the ; works; the: rest cleared' out jsine* >- r , the eruption, ,', , „*:,*{ The Ngatipikoshaye a twnhunga} -.jut ... -.-;{ priest, whocameuptoTaheketheday before the eruption. He made.ra; re- : ; mark to the natives— it might bfeby-,^, -way ef banter— that so many, lies had ; beep told at the Taheke I^ndjßdnrt; : r by the Tuhourangis, that it wasflik^ljr i: an earthquake would swallow sthTem -.1, up. The tohunga's reputation Vbas." increased .since by the curious. Goinoi--;-dence that his prediction came |v?T» :Mr Warbeck, when making for ?; : Rotoma,hana, passed; the Bijte> .Thompson's house; four miieas jfrom,;^! Wairoa. His nephews were engage4^^ digging it out, and had gone 4^. feet without finding the roof. Tbompj - ; ■' son's wife and seven children are supposed to be bi red underneath, it^y

Amongst other changes at >Lafce cr Tarawera, the of accasjas at . Karsks is completely gone, .rlkhp-^. Tarawera is blocked with snn^ .•■xvno.>--ning at random oyer sand i flats-near?--the base of Mount Edgcumb, at th.^.. • back of Okataka. The lake seems to be intact, but everywhere : e^e, is - ;^ utterly destroyed. ; 95 Maoris w.erea^ .. the settlement on the Ariki ; among;/.; them Samuel Brown Baker, formerly of Ohinemntu, and his Maori wife and, : vi five children perished; and also at ; Te Ariki, four Taupo natiTes who f were, on a visit. .Kaiaro, a Bonian ;i Qa^holic eatechist of the, JE^angitikitiki^ tnb> was also lost. T^iki of the Ngatoi hapu Tuhonrangi, /wn»Kn> loaf; at Moara, with four sonsaud their ; , : wives and children. „* . : i -vi Captain iNiair saya it is eridentvthafc^ ; • the first outburst was at the; southjentl^ of Tarawera, from which camo all^h^ duHtji.then came the top: dressing "iffc'gS mud from .the stoam v«>lcaiw>ea,^»jm<l' ,; f Bototnahana. .The whole cotuilry^v:" looks like; a vast bush de>:rjngv;.<«x-;ift] oept for the grey aisb, instead of blacky ~[ and the natural features of the^oonitr ; a try are rompletely ajtered.^: ;5-; : w ,. t! ;;

- ; A party of six who left for ß^towaa^f hana by the Galatea; ruad ,hßre . i returned. They .advanced to. a hilliit : the W e k; of the -Hnk t^rrace^hciu^ tne most accessiW* wdß; SmokQl^*: , blowingup the vallej. Ai^^iarter: of. aj mile from the crater at the Jtmck ■»> of the ter^aoey jfour of th® fle- ■*•■ clined to go any f urtUe^ Ifci^t^^^f Captain Stifl, of Hamiltdi^ , and MfV Bloomfieid pushed -,pnrf 'Mot* ; .fte^^H9rj i idge of the crater and s^w;^hiß volcaB?;,. , oes \n eruption in Rotpmaliana. ;It was iinspeakably grand. They wat^eefk^ one toud' volcano, L '«to4. oount«d;li9VSh^ before the mud fell. . ■ Jdr. Bloomfieid started td v «kei«liii^iea ftill called him baokian<i they had only returned thiity Tard«jwh«afcAft_, place where they had been elipe«4^t»^ ; the crater. The cwl^ortope appeared i J to have a sliding motiop, which sue* -■. eeeded ab "oartbi txtmor. Pnlvt^um: • ing they met Dr Hector and parm^i The ph^tQgraphers ■ with thejia> ;^p| : been successful in getting view* of \^ whole of the sceno «{ the volcanio, / eruptionsf. :>ii r -^■■■-^■vi^-j^ .-■.•.-.; /-^ ( . . ■ - June 16.

: SirJuKus Vog^ received th^fottenring telegram from Rotorua this morn- V ing : — " Four severe shocl»-b#4arth> £ y quake were felt between 12 and 12^.30; .* last" night, andy several . smi&ef^onW "t during the night, producing^ general feeling of uneasiness. Several jpeople left their houses in blanket^ wandering about, not knowing where togo. The , geysers and volcanoes are the same as yesterday. The springs are very activa here, and the temperature ;ianiu^ch:<;; increased/ :

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