Our Wonderland.

Manawatu Herald, 28 January 1893, Page 2

Our Wonderland.

The Taupo correspondent of the New Zealand Herald writes to that journal as follows : — Ngauruhoe and the other volcanoes are still very active, the heavy rains having transformed the dust originally thrown out into mud. A peculiar result has been the consequence ; the boiling mud runs over the lip of the crater nnd flows into the old ones, which have been thus filled up, and as a result many of the minor fumeroles have been closed. This is doubtless the cause of the tremendous outburst of Te Mare, which I reported a short time ago. a certain quantity of steam mnsfc escape within a given time, or something must •'bust," and on this occasion Te Mare " busted." Where the next outbreak may be no one can conjecture, but with such a quantity of vents in and around Tongariro, there is not the slightest danger either to tourists or residents. Several parties have visited Te Mare since its eruption, and everyone describes the scene as awfully grand. A tremendous rent has been made, abont a quarter of a mile long, and through it steam is seething and hissing at such a rate that conversation in the immediate vicinity is impossible.