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> Wellington, Friday-7.25 p.m The following; information has been received from thet North :— News just tohapd. . There is no hope for Tapahoro'Te ArSki, and Mdara native settlements^: 70 ate known to be at the: two latter places. I expect the deaths of natives Will Jjxce>d 100 ; I fear that Mr U; IL Burt 1 , who' is puppoaed to have camped near the foot of Mount Tarawora that night, on his waylto Galatea, has perished. . ; :His two horses havo found their way home. The craters on Ruawahia and its twin cone are emitting volumes of dense smoke. Rotomnhand Lake is a seething roaring mass . of water, the clouds of steam from which J aripe several thousand feet high. A number of willing handa were digging for bodies at Wairoa to-day. Mr Mcßao informs me that he extinguished at least 10 halls of fire which came crashing through his roof during the uighr, igniting everything they came into contact with. • • ■' •■■•■•-■ -.. 8 pan. - Telegrams from Te Puke, 25 miles from Rotorua, say that the country is desolated. The feed is all covered up and the. cattle are starving. The'Go- , vernment have been asked to send nrfissed hay to Tauranga, Te Puke is one of Mr Vess'y Stewart's special settlements, • '..'•'
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1732, 12 June 1886, Page 3
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