The Recent Volcanic

Feilding Star, 29 June 1886, Page 2

The Recent Volcanic

BY A COftßßSvpKris^^^^^^^l I went over to XtatorW**s^^^^^H instant, and pushed throo£fcl^^^^H mahanato tee for mywlf tbjfc^^^H asd iiaiureot the calamity. r ltf^^^H to within about three miles. of iho^^H of the Pink; Terrace, and, leaving S hones, waded to the edge ,^3^ crater— whioh now oooupiea t|ie tit* of the Pink Terrace— and combed to the hill beyond it. The scene it alt*, gether beyond detmptivn in its wttrd desolation. The whole: oountrj to -^c 8. and 8. W. of Rotoraahnna is corerid from two ft? twenty feerwijfr diy d^st* resembling Mahuraugi lime, mote fha^ anything I can think, of, though the | general effect ., is whiter— something / tike a snowfield. The cold threw hard, »haru nhadows, and gave | one the impression that walking on( the surface of the nioen would He<bvery similar. I neve* bad iuch' walking; each step' oue sank above one's leggings. Taking clouds of puwderj dutt, which stuck most unpleasantly 1 to the perspiration iuduoed by iflioiheavy labour of toiling : over a succy^ l sion of steep ridges and gtiUiea. *;Tiiijf B.W. end of 'rarawei^mou.jl^iVjdiVwi' a huge drateTi friini which 1 ihiuk*il the dry m^te^afwaß«]#^di : proliah^^ at the beginning ot the eruptiou^Tho: itiU* f »«r miles in all t>ther jlireoHcwii v are covereSd deeply with thirsameifttiiiff, only it h^ 4t»*ty from i^V numerable craters now rtcri|pyin§ sites of the; TerracW; of which not a Ytmtige remains, and ih^mim^t thelak»i»mud in«««)(i>muidet»te. From oar vantage grt>hi|'l ■ Ye wmld see the iiteof the beautiful did ration ; station at Te Mn, aero*f Irtke Tk^. nera^and the Wairas> 4i»*jpl/^uHuU ; in this mud, no trao* of thW^^^nW beiogdittiuguuliableatthaidi^nci. Many trees further to the «aitw^i l had been strut* hy Kfh**i«% and Wsr* burning. The grouad wa# in k rferl' petusl tremor with ow^k»uat iftiWv ( earthquake shocka, 4|^4 :' falling mud and sUnee, itHMtaudf thrown to a great Mght frim »tt7ii' bers of aetire geyser*, itede u# «; thoroughly appalling paqnriM,. Th^ whitish dust throiigh whick we peiiedl ho« b««n thrown oat rery ereoly to « radius of abeut three uHleafraea Tari^ wera, and the circular raagW <tf tlua deposit, which is as dearly defines! as though it had W»4oo« with a wbi^waah^ushj^rtn*^' most noticwiU* feature in thedaodscape. Tlie deposit includes Okara take, and its ed«ft passes acreM th» foot slopei of MoOnl Kakaramea. The mud fell at Tsiuki and places a littler mmored frofe'th* centre of action abiiolutely^ silently-^ ' like a Hell- broth dew in « black darkness that could be felt. 11iers>''#friwhea I left Ohinemutu, hsif^i^os*n reportsrs Wterinf ronnd the pubs. Jsteniiig to anjf yarn tk* «,yo» hkod to tell themt and ruimiag «% &i ''■ f»^P»j»li^We»ltt wit* In or misoonceprion that th#t could heir or inreirt—kuraaß blow i^r One of the recent untrutke k im\ ho| spring .Jiad made its appMranc*; rnea> th* dub her* l l Bois of ft^ Te ( Puki and Taoranga gras« Is. | beHeve, beginning to pusl| : :-fts:w«wr^ throiigh the;^ deposit that had coveted it, but that will not of course «i«oe forth© unhappy settlers' rattle. Afanf of the Ma*ri horse* mhmti Rotorit* « covering of m»d aaii»ei'or. .twikhick, which they bad «o4 mhktsd ipff Uter nearly a week. < 3 .. Tavbahiu. fun* a& , ~ -.-. Mcßae- and Huropbriee l»ft f Off Auckland! thia morning;. Their- %ti^ ' sent intention is to proceed to w^ lington. to; lay their caae before th* Government, oa the ground that » salvage party for rescuing their rood* was ordered back yesterday morsjimr. The WhakarewarewH geysati^^SiV playing up gradually, and the tpnme* are active. Tikitoreis also thrtTwiSr up a good volume of attorn. Boto. mahana must be pretty active tSu^ as columns of. steam cUuda 'ma*?**k^ here, a distance of over ' JA mitea: away. . ,-•,..■■■■-..' .; ■• : _"^^*.--. -. ;