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(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Tuesday. Taupo Lake yesterday afternoon rose to an alarming height very suddenly but subsided gradually without doing any damage. Tongariro Mountain at the same time showed increasing activity. This morning Tongariro is enveloped m thick smoke and loud explosions proceeded from it. A severe shock of earthquake was felt simultaneously at Rotorua. Two shocks of earthquake were felt this morning. The old Maori who was dug out yesterday from Wairoa, after being buried four days, says he had no food? but prayed all the time. The natives will not speak to him, believing him to be the wizard which has caused the erup-. tion. A constable who arrived at Rotorua, reports that there are no hopes of saving life at To Ariki nnd Morea settlements. The former is buried twenty feet deep m mud and ashes. The latter has disappeared, and it is believed was swal lowed up by Lake Tarawera. It is believed that no further eruption will take pl-ice a: liotoru*, but Tongariro is considered very threatening. [The above items were published as a supplement to a portion of the Town Edition of our previous 188U0 |
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1735, 16 June 1886, Page 4
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195Latest from Rotorua. Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1735, 16 June 1886, Page 4
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