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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1743, 25 June 1886, Page 3

Latest from Rotorua.

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT^.

" (UNiTBD PBESS ASSOCIATION) . R^toroa, Friday. , A dorth eaater has been blowing, and rain without intermission all yesterday. Lands, of Blythe's staff, returned this afternoon from Rotomahana. He re. ports Boscawen and Morgan (guides) as having had a frightful time of it atoamp : through the. gale last night. T;hey «ould not sleep for; toe -earthquake, shocks. The tent'pbles were bent down and the tent threatened to collapse over them, and they had to go out and prop it up. It has transpired to day that notwithstanding the warnings, given by the fate of Way's expedition, Messrs, Mennett, Gregory, and Batty ; went to : Wairoa yesterday, and no communication has since been received from them! nor have they returned from Eaiterera. It is supposed they are staying quietly at Wairoa till the present north-westerly «ale has exhausted itself, and with their supplies and the remainder of the contents of McEae's cellar are holding; out comfortably. Mr Johnson, the ■Government agent, has however deemed it prudent to despatch Constable Cavanagh to look them up and ascertain their safety. With the present pitiless storm,, going on they piusf; have )iad an awful time of it, hemmed m amid W»ij r roa avalanches and gUWfli* T)?§ PM' tractor for the Bbtqrua vaj^rwoj- k§ las reported to li^lfi^V. Insn|csra| |ig ; ■ gineer; that ft cfrsvg. *'$$ W?% BB i the side of Pukeroa hjll heli|^ p|i peaching the depth of ope f oojf js&g flpon ground so hot %\»X. ijiey Ayfcrf? cci|iipplled to desist standing |n the trenqh and digging, miQ sopie sji^s oif quake diiring thf ios $$*§$?& one at 3 pifiw, ana 'w$ &*ss!? at" Sulphur Point almpit c^nti^ous. A. telephone inegiige yrttf rfoe.ivei4 at Tah§ke that severe shocki wPW I?H R* Botpitoi at 3 jb'olpok "y^ster^y afternoon. A report ! has been brought by a Native froipi ' Whakarewaterea that an oil bath ' V thrpwing "up stones and mud to a height of twenty feet, and that a large boiling lagoon at Pap. tahoifauddenly fell two feet and rose to j its old, |evel, and was falling and rising j throughout %h.e day. The native policeman went out to investigate the report. He states that the report is perfectly true. . On_ Sunday at midday, a peculiar phenomenon occurred at the great Ruiria cauldron/ which suddenly subsided two feet and m half an hour returned to its former level and to the state of activity which it has presented since the Tarawera eruption. . J. Information was received this evening from some 6f the sanatorium staff thai two fresh plsees have been oat at Whaka- l re waterea vp s bill last night, and another, this dlornink ■>■ 'Messrs Bush and Hind report that the place where they used to cook at Whakarewatera has dried up, and isTSow^hirowing "up. sibnes. Some more residents of Botorua are leaving,/ unable to bear the mental strain, through the earth 'tremors and vague underfined ■' feehng of apprebeniipn.. - , Later telephone! message from Rotortoi, states that a tidal wave on the lake rose fo tlie stable ofFraser's Hotel at Tatuki, 7 yards distant. The difference m the level is 3 feet. The-residents did. not see the wave advancing, but on rushing out saw it receding. .