THE SCENE FBOM NEW PLYMOUTH.
The following information has been telegraphed to Mr McKerrbvr, Surveyor* General, by Mr T. Humphries, Chief Surveyor at New; Plymouth, who is a particularly accurate observer :—" Tfce eruption at Tarawera was a fine- sight here all day yesterday (Sunday). The column at 4 p.m., when I saw it, was by com potation from observation with 6* inch transit theodolite 24,000 feet high above sea level. It had all day « rose colored tinge, but with deep red glare near my horizon rolling and heaving. None of this was visible on Saturday, though equally a clear, sky. The height of Tarawera Mountain being 1964 ft, the above shows that the column which we saw reached vertically foqr miles above {he inountam,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1736, 17 June 1886, Page 2
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124THE SCENE FBOM NEW PLYMOUTH. Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1736, 17 June 1886, Page 2
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