ERUPTION OF MOUNT TARAWERA.
(UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION) .;, .; ; ;.'..,., TA^BANGA,,Mjpnday.| j j I left Rotoraa on Saturday morning at six o'clock by the Te Puke mail coach route; m order to see the/extent/of''damage by ' volcanic deposits, the volcanic ' mud at Te Ngae, Taheke and all along- • the r.oute to : Tauranga;, . Ag we left , Rotorua all ,ithe. surrounding:' mountains-; were ctothebO'ri snow, and there was ice' ba))arts M the road. It w the first 'fair of snow ibfVf our years; It is stated:thatitHe recent volcanic-eruption' and the al»i teration of the thermal system will pro-' duce climatic changes m the Lake district, and that m all probability it will be* 'cblder there, miles from Eotori% ' $ie 'mail coach stack fast m volcanid muiij a glacier of / which waR flowing ,;down from the Te Ngae ranges across ithe road: The passengers, knee-deep. in Mudj endeavored to assist the horses by . 5 ml6^ing j the wheels, and a,fter half an 'hour's struggle got the coach Two new springs or streams appeared to i&aye broken out.jn the Te, Ngae Ranges, ■as they were, pouring over the road: -where water had been never known beVicrt^: , Alpne this part ofsthe|rbate deso-aatipnj-reilrne^; Te Ngae is J-uined, the (deposit of mud is to deep too aprnit the if ecbverysof the, vegetation .f ' Birds Wer^ seen on the shrubs dead, sitting as they had been killed by mud showew. ,, The Wn'nn by pigg iri W MMvot » %et food. , At Harvey and Kirk'i the cattU are' being kept ahye by. stacks of Jj»y, were bein« killed *s r«pidJy t% posIJoli 'fer'butohedh«7mrptwe».^ A colony ar-ntf croaped the »o»d m ftront ot the opiph irom tht yhfoo* tide, making for &£?o«P&& :^>w : ekwr ofdepoiit. At fntt: tm rf tbjrro^iwbibuud » dr»y-. lotd of ipodi fort •torekeetjer »t Ristoru* ' J*»ajo»«a Jv;«to rfadiidc, tht driver j^MNtli^^ of /ctting through, At : *io3Ptt** wttle»e«tf wißgUti to Jeirn Mt tht voloiniq dappiit »ow ii »^ F «., ardgd •? so hwyy »^to ab«fprt»wwfly- &&*•£" SWS 1 - 'A Wfti«»- lowngiuff up, ««[n ? Bbeltft; atid food k t W | h«sh, All th« wiy down to Tiufanje* on th»
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1746, 29 June 1886, Page 2
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342ERUPTION OF MOUNT TARAWERA. Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1746, 29 June 1886, Page 2
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