FULLER PARTICULARS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1736, 17 June 1886, Page 2

FULLER PARTICULARS.

(UNITED PRBBS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Tuesday. - The Hon. Mr Larnach received the following from Dr (pector this afternoon :— Captain Mair sends me the fol-lowing-from Wairoa:-We have just got back (9 p.m.) after a fearful climb up hill. We found Moara covered only three feet with the softest ooze, which had run down front the heights . above and Bwept the sediment and all the huts into deep water. Not a blade of raupo is to be seen floating on the lako". We then went on to Te Ariki, and found a bay there filled right out to the point on the right hand side, leaving only a -slight curve m shore. The place once occupied by the natives; is coveted about twenty feet with whitedu&t, which has bften shot out of a huge rent m the south end of Tarawera Mountain, which is still active. On; the top -of the fine dusc, which ii top hot to bear' the feet m places, lie two feet of wet mud, apparently quite recent, over which it is quite impossible to walk. Rotomai. kauri is full of large active steamers, the largest of which appears to be about the sizo of the White Terrace, and is throwing up enormous clouds of grit or dark dust. We found a parly of nine natives from Mataia. The poor chaps bad been floundering about m the dry ashes for two days, working tor their lost relatives. We took them to near Tapihora, and gave them a good lot of tucker. We have been the means of saving them from a miserable night. Under Mount Tarawera continuous land or mud slips and avalanches of rocks kbep tumbling into the lake at dozens of places, making an awful row. The lake still pulsates a good deal, and is very high. All the points or promontories of rock are knocked about, and huge masses overturned. Our chaps could hardly get to the top of the clitf on our return, and all are pumped out. — -Gilbert Maib.

The Government received the following telegram from Rotoraa to-day :— • Everything wan Quiet during the uight. Nothing is to he seen this morning, as there is a thick fog. A little rain fell during the night. It is believed that rain would cause the mud to slip from therideiof the' mountain" and fill up some of the lakes, and block up the road to a great depth, thereby proving a greater source of danger to the people than an eruption of th« volcano. It is quite a decided fact that the Terraces exist no longer.— R^CDANSOTi p .

Th« volcanic action *• far asTanwera appeals to be rapidly exhausting itself, but at Rbtoinahana Captain Maire says the volcanoes sho* every indication «f being permanent, and will have m future to be the attractions for tourists, instead of the Terraces. Wairoa road, past Lake Taupo, is now closed. The waggons buried on the flat near Titikipu Lake were extricated to day. The road is strewn with tools thrown away. The last, two Europeans who held oat at Lake Takapou (Messrs Butler and Gregory) left to-night ; and Constable Cavanagh, by direction of Inspectors Kieleyand Goodall, took old Rawiri, who refused to abandon Wairoa, and brought him on by force to Lake Kotakakahi, where he was taken on to the Kathrika Caves. The only practicable method of getting dad the property of the survivors at Wa.ir,oa will, Captain Mair states, be by canoeing from Rotakakohe ; by Katereria. One thousand pounds worth of property still remains belongiug to the Mcßaes aud Humphries. The future road, when Wairoa is abandoned, will be by Wbakareatea to Kateria, and on to Okaro. The whole of the land, Captain Mair says, which . was formerly fit • for cnltivation, is owned by Tuhohuranga. Ngatirtngitiki ia covered deep with mud and spoiled. Mr Johnston, Government agent, is arranging for the relief of any present distress. At dusk, there could be seen from the top of Pukeroa Reserve < what appeared to be white clouds from hot springs or geysers at the south east end of Paeroa. They continued for some time. As they are m the line of yolcaftic action, which Captain Mair says is nine miles long, with over a dozen volcanoes, it is probable the thermal system at Paeroa has become more active. About 6 o'clock, two flashes m the sky m that direction were seen like ligntning, Ou the Waikato side appeared a lunai rainbow. At the same period an earth tremor or slight earthquake took place. At the Government baths at Rotorua the attendants ran outside the building m alarm, but nothing further occurred, Lake Rotorua still fluctuates. Sinoi dusk the Tarawera volcanoes have been tolerably quiet, .but Rotomahana has baen more active. It is belching pilei of white steam clouds thousands or. feet m the air, forming grand Mont Blancs, with ledges and ravines and peaks of carious and grotesque f oros, making with the sheen of the moonlight playing upon the ©rial craig ravines a ; magnificent sight. ; . -\rr '■'.'. Auckland, Tuesctay It is believed no further eruptions will take place at Rotorua, but Tongariro is considered very threatening. A special from Taupo, received at 4 o'clock yesterday states that loud explosions have been heard m the direction of Tongariro, followed by a muffled rumbling noise. The waters of Lake Taupo were greatly agitated, and rose considerably, rushing up the beaches m tremendous surf, and pouring through the outlet at the head of the Waikato River m a deafening roar. Tongariro was hidden by clouds yesterday, but showed signs of unusual activity, emitting large and intermittent volumes of steam. Karakatiti and Ngawhao on the shore adjacent are unusually active. There are greater volumes of steam on the shores of Lake Taupo now than known at any time preceding the eruption. Tongariro is roaring angrily, and at intervals loud thundering reports, like cannonading frightened the shepherds at the foot of the mountain, wlurwaited terror-stricken for daylight, and escaped toTokano, There seems no immediate chance of the cattle and sheep starving m Whakatane and Opitiki districts, as grass is springing through the fall of dust.