NGAURUHOE IN ERUPTION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9391, 10 March 1909, Page 8

NGAURUHOE IN ERUPTION.

FURTHER ACCOUNTS. • A GLORIOUS SPECTACLE. Per Press Association, Wanganui, March 10. The Herald’s correspondent at Rangataua on the Main Trunk Line between Uhakune andKarioi, wires that the falling of volcanic dust still continues, and has become heavier. Ngauruhoe is smoking furiously. Waimarino residents had an exciting time ou > Monday night the rumbling being very pronounced. There are no earth tremors and apparently no need for alarm, as Ngauruhoe is evidently acting as a safety valve. The try is enveloped in smoke. Messages from Raetihi states that that place is unaffected. . The Herald’s correspondent at Waiourn telegraphs Ngaranhoe was in violent eruption yesterday, throwing ashes and rocks to a considreable height, the stones rolling in’numbers down the mountain side. It is not quite so severe to- lay. The Tokaanu coach got through yesterday. Auckland, March 10. The Star’s Taupo correspondent wires that the eruption of the Ngaruahoe crater was witnessed at a distance’ of five miles by overland coaob passengers, with great interest and not a' little fear. About 11 a.m. a huge black column of mixed steam and ashes shot, skywards, rolling over and over till it reached a height of about 8000 feet above the crater.. Soon the already smoky sky was blackened with falling ash and now and again another huge outburst took place with an audible roar scattering the hovering clouds. The clouds wero of most fantastic shapes, and drifted to the southeast as a light northerly wind was blowing, leaving a black train _of ashes falling like rain from a high elevation. The volcanic cloud ever increased till it obscured the whole southern sky in one black pall. Some tourists who had seen Stromboli and Vesuvius in_ action said Ngauruhoe was superior in effect and were greatly pleased by the majestic and sublime grandeur of the eruption. The falling ash turned the pure white [snow of Ruapehu to a dingy dark colour. About 4 o’clock on Tuesday morning the occupants of the half-way house were awakened '■ by heavy rumblings and explosions. At 11 an upheaval! occurred on the western side of the crater, which seemed ,to be blown clean away. Old residents say the outburst was the finest seen ,for years, including the “outbreak; of 1869, when lava streams poured down the western side. The general post office at 11.30 this morning received the following message form Waiourn Ngauruhoe is skill in eruption, but no ashes are falling here to-day. The coach got through from Tokaanu yesterday. It is understood no damage has been done.