THE VOLCANIC DISTRICT.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 16, 3 August 1886, Page 2

THE VOLCANIC DISTRICT.

Botorvi. J : Mr U. M. Cotton, of lad ( r Canterbury. wlk» with hi* w. . .«■’ here yesterday af'.-rounn. an i at the Palace Hotel, lias hce:i since 5 o'clock last night. ,' and efficient search w,i* k«'pt . - ■light, but no trace was found : i At daybreak next monut - t:.search was resumed, a nun. r t horsemen Leing out, and a nun tr of Natives, induced by a rewai i d offertsl by the Government a 'lr Jolinstoni, and a further sum i f t • 1 offered by Mrs Cotton. Tie- ’ ; . iiaie man's footstep* ran I*- tr to the race-nurse and for s un. down the Wiiakar. a arena tr .. i i in other plat es, but up to tlu- mio of writing lie him-vlf had r ' b n i found. It was at fir*; behticd i j he must liave either fallen m’o i i- | ing spring or crawled int and in his weak conditio tlie exposura . but a ' ! i covere.l his track* five > Taupo roa-1. and the that he may yet ts t Horsemen have gone < - sympatliy is felt for Mr t searcii party has just arr.v i • from tlie Taupo rood. Tri war distinctly tracts] fur ad -i i. . and were then lost in the fet t ■ :i hack of Waikaukau Ur. ek at . I | ,ti. Mr Cotton has Ken f • i.. I brought in by Mr Dan-ey. w ,i. . on him aWmt 15 miles fr un l; - on the Taupo road, afti r all t .-. i..:.er searchers hati left for Kotor t.

A rcxuxn. Jwl. I. Yeetenlay two bodies. ". ~ ,/ i Native woman and girl. « • r •• r- ; from the volcanic i 1 W • Attention was fir-t drs» ■ • -i by tlie action of a d ■ ! the bodies wer- f. identifiid a* thewe of V ••*• i 1" mother and daugii'>T, . ... pretty well pn-servcil. 1' girl had hes-n ill for kim.- t - • the eruption, and when *- ■ » q her mother got tirt*! and kei t. r. •• on tlie wav. Though M n'i i.v. have saved herself h .er, r daughter, site did not d wi, ,■ * by her. Tlie seefl-t i- • | i bv the sttitudi s m v were found, the mo*her ■ .i the girl in her amis ' r i Mr I.unduis ha* ju,; . i,., Rotomaliana Volcanoes to R >t lie lias been mgs; -i w h • 1 ant Surveyor Octeral, M r I c . Smith, for tlie last f. * I in * i altitudes, the w eat hi r i. . h. ' favourable. Tlicv earn;* , at ii,. f.iot of Paraw , 1 with a tent ffv only <>v. r ti - r * ds, I and tlie bare sand as ait \ ; . y found plenty of gool r a., pools but nut a stick of t.i. ~*>i to cook anytliing with. ! they ascetnleii Tarawera \i .. . and nwcMilid in gw’.tini. summit of lluaaai.i, tl. » point of all. when- n lieen. They found th . ... t was split right in tw i. k- -i V tneasiiring in some | . chain* acrose. A I. line of tins extend.'! r hi i;i,ia Whang* to Okaro l,n. by a few chains U-tw.ei lies >.d. . .ii i llotiunaliana. Tlie v i a n „ ■■ was Very fieble. but th f.ims p .. reeding frotn tills cl.a We». X. rx pungent and stifling. \ *,«il view uf Ohineniutu wa* olile*jn-l fn :u t) i* point. Mr Spencer, a | .. , ' r. accotupatnud the party, *..•! i:c...... 1 in obteimn-t - ms • a* xalualde m gatives. one .1 . i v show tlie great nft on Uic .- umii.it of Kuawalu. Jaly 31. The following are f.ili. r j rs of tlie ascent of Ta.i.ii Mr ! tj Suuth'e *urv« pai Uu tep u( Tsuhu. i ... .* \t\f

tin -■'ill i:. taut, the party consisting «>I eight |m rvwis. They left tlie mam ■ '« i’srehatu llusli at ft on the m if tlie 117th, carrying blankets •if. i a ten'-fly for ramping out. They i . .1 ii umud to the foot of Hu pa o-u-i i, •«.; 1 then skirling round the north .or of the main eruption r.. lied i'.imwora Lake above what i. i-«l to I- i i Ariki, of which no trace w*.< to be i<«*en t everything being i. iii*-il by 1 a mud. All about Te Ariki the ni.id vas very ttoft, and the - Two < f them hers ilivarßwl, and visited tie pi. at r< u m l by the Star expedii ni, uid saw their marks. They ti npe • i i-.-d to tlie f«x»i of Tdrawers, hut t.u in. ; it too late to u- cend the mountain tliul day decided to camp. Tlie i«- -t of tlie day was spent in cvauuning u large rent in the earth from t: ■ foot of i'arawtra to where M t ie xerrace was. Considering tn ' si lv -!opt on the mud, and hu<! ii lire, til* night was passed ft tlie t'Cent »vs taken. When about 7tsi feet up l‘rifes or Tlionias' mark wits r« ached. 'I lie ascent was rather >*p. I", t there .vi good walking. Jets of sU>am were met with here, mill ti.. . w*iri lughly charged with I Ire. i The top of Taraw r:t va ri ached by 10. Then it w.i ■ i• :i t ! .iit the three mountains—ta. and Wdhanga—ai< , it .i. two frmn end to end by ni . . ■ almost 10 chains w .. mul lti J ep. Tlie. way in which u • -i.i: i si. '( split is very remarki 'l. Ti f inoiliitttiii ha also mided t<> ii i; ght l'** fit or more. After nii: it ir " the top, tlie party d< i. ' vi tlie main track 1 6 :tn in tin-