SERIOUS ERUPTION AT WAIMANGA.
(pgr press association.)
Auckland, This Day.
A Sheppard guide at Waimanga reports a great eruption at 7 p m on Thursday. It was probably the most severe since 1886 and was heralded by two loud reports like cannon, followed by an upheaval of a black column to the height of 1000 feet which in descending filled the whole ▼alley. The noise was deafening owing to stones meeting in mid air, The noise was like the crack of musketry. After the eruption a dense white cloud of steam arose ascending thousands of feet above the summit of Tarawa,
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 December 1901, Page 3
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101SERIOUS ERUPTION AT WAIMANGA. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 December 1901, Page 3
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