ERUPTION OF MOUNT TARAWERA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1738, 19 June 1886, Page 2

ERUPTION OF MOUNT TARAWERA.

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(united peess Association. ) v \ x: ■ : RoTOßUA^Fridjiijg jNo;. earth tremors were expeVienced.at Rbtorua today, and affairs are settling down ..to the ; normal conditions. The weathdr is splendid. The Government intend sending up to the volcanic region an artist and photographer with guides, m order to ro produce exactly the present condition of the country, and the physical features and changes. Inspector Goodall has left for Tauranga. • There are great hopes that the land of Taheke side will come all right, but the lower portion of Te Ngae has itooi deep a deposit to recover vegetation, and sufficient fall for the mud to get to" the laic. . ■'•/•■'■. . Ro f oriJa Lake to-day was discolored and still abnormally high. The springs : are unusually active, and there is a great ; developuiept of gases. A |re'ih. attempt : was. made W'get, out Mcßae's waggons and Criramins' drays, which stuck m the iflat at Takatipn Lake. , The men got to ■th« point with seven Horses, bnt had to 'retire. . Thesy brought some packages off ion horseback. The mu4 was up to the 'saddle flaps. The road on tho flat at TikatinVaipd the road round ,thejface of the mountain, bat ween Lakes Takatipu and Korokakahi, the salvage party reported as ' wholly' goWe. An' avalanch* of mud has fallen from the mountain, burying the ground under 11 feet ofV mud, and gathering momentum, it shot into the lake bodily. A spur 150 feet high, at the base, covered with stunted timber, l^ad , been pushed' clean^.oyer by i the hydraulic pressure of the sludge at the back, and had toppled across where the road formerly existed, into the lake. Captain Way is desirous of getting out the wreckage of his property, but as Dr Hector said of Mr Mcßae's waegonlpads, if it were gold dust instead of personal effects, the result would not be worth the exertion and peril to human life., m.. ; -> •/■.•:•,■■:.-•■■• : ■■■.■■■■•:■■■■■. -.< :> : Plenty of stores, and blankets have arrived for the Tuhuorangi survivors. Mr Pairbrqther has also got to hand a quantity of clothing from the Tabernacle, Auokkind, for distribution. Mr Johnson,; Government agent, Has /been 'arranging measures for future relief. He is urean while issuing to, Kepa, the chief, for his people, a quantity of biscuits and blanke s.. These poor people oan^ot on the Viand and wcome self-sHpportinr. There is no case of. real distress existing unrelieved. The Trihiiprangi survivors are now seriously discussing their plans apd prospects for the^ future. They were so.appalbd at thejterrorß they had undergone 'tKat they at firit intended going away out of sight and reach of tho hot springs altogether. , The Rotorua Natives/ are\ averse Ito this, ai breaking up 'the. lake confederation,- and would prefer 'ceding the land to the survivors. Kepa and his oeople fully realise that the old days of Wairoa lavishneis, extravagancei and dissipation, arising out of the golden stream of the tourists' .money, are all over. They will now "have to 'work for a living, and it it the best thing that, ever happenlid to jthem,they' were decaying like ; rotton "sheep from their violation of the laws W health, of 1 temperance, and of morality, aided with dowphill?tocelerated veldcity, to our 1 shame bedt said, by the vices of European civilisation. ;"W[hat the at&W. oi, affair must have been uapy be imagined from the^remark, of a Native who heard; of thediiajfeii, aid who hadjnot'lpngiaro! attended -a Maori gathering tn the Lake country, that it w^as possessed of the wickedness of tbeOitiesof^hft Plain, and that an angry God had given theu^the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. Among those lout, however, were some as fitoe specimens 'of the Maori race as eVer breathed. . ;