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A alight shock drU^arttiqaak* wti felt »t fl?8~ojn .Sunday y morning, and ■ slibrtly BftsrWaTda Toluimei of atcam • v were &ej* issuing frpni a netr crater.. -THfe'nfatyr^tbinK'ibe eruption ia' at" ;owhaki\/sbi*thward of the Paeroa rang*. A dißtarb»nco ''appekred tobe at T»r»wi»ra 'yeßterday,,. and a clearer rit w ' coald bw ohtairie^.' There arw namerooa* centres of activity. The bodies of th» Eazzard .family, and M. Bambridg*. ivefe mt'erred this afternoon^ M^ W. - ill Beriy wires: >yEh«, tf rr^aees are .. gone, the whole base formerly bcc\ipißd by' them, and by Rotpmihau%-is now a series 6f . great. . volcanoes, and , are a . ■, grand and terrible ; spectacle. Hag» ; ; boulders and showers of asbes are bein^ '; thrqwri up hy ( them, Tauranga, as far . an '^ecoiiTif Bee if," was i free from tbfe canio disturbances. I cou 121 not' see tli* white terrace for smoke aud steam, but it 'cannot exist. Tbe piulc x terrace looka as if it bad fallen m. All natives aboal :$^ V ! ? '; '/' y '■'•;' ; ' - Taubaijga, Monday. Pr Hector is of opinion that tha dnit which lays on the ground* will nltimate- .'' iy prove beneficial. Tho dust is heary, -.aild 'last' what tth a r liirf>tW>U .nt. .*IW U*~m*~ZiL^
. • ; Taubanoa, Monday. # The road between here and Tepuke is strewn with dead sheep and horses, most of the former perishing by being poiBoned with tutu. Rotorua, Monday. The postmaster at Whakatane has ju«?t reported the following :~" A native who escaped, feom-'Ruawahia on the wnakataneFside of the Lake Tarawera states that from where he was he could see the •ettlement at Te Ariki destroyed, killing Samuel Brown and about 40 natives. Another native warned McPhersou and Wbakatane that Lake Tarawera had riMB about ,Bo or. 40 feet, and also" that hefore the late eruption it rose.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1733, 14 June 1886, Page 2
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