THE UNCANNY NORTH.
REPORTS LIKE CANNON. VALLEY FILLED WITH BLACK SMOKE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, last night. Mr Sheppard, guide at Waimunga, reports that there was a great eruption at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, probably the most severe since 1886. It was heralded by two loud reports like cannon, followed by the upheaval of a black column to a height of 1000 feet, which in descending filled the whole valley. The noise was deafening, owing to the stones meeting in mid-air and making a noise like the crack of musketry. After the eruption a dense white cloud of steam arose, arose, ascending thousands of feet above the summit of Tarawera.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 298, 24 December 1901, Page 2
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