NGAURUHOE ACTIVITY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9466, 8 June 1909, Page 7

NGAURUHOE ACTIVITY.

Mr T. E. Barton, who has spent a few days in the vicinity of the il, write, --“fflatly on Sato--day afternoon, there wss »P r ° lol, B®'J rumble from the volcano. I thought at first it was thunder, but it seemed to come along the duress aembled the roar of a fast express rushing into a tunnel. Than enormous gushes of black smoke, or dustladen'steam, shot up from the crater -rising quickly to a height anywhere between 2000 feet and 8000 feet, and cloud after .cloud went up at an enormous velocity, until a great area of the sky field was _ darkened. So -rapid was the upward rush of tne steam, which was rendered as blank as ink by the volcanic dust, that 1 expected at every moment to see the red flakh of molten laya, but no sign of it came. Volcanic dust has been deposited over a wide area ,ot tne surrounding oourftry, . informed in the district that the ash, or dost, has been falling for the past,three months in, onej part or another. The eruption: 1 hava -spoken of was succeeded by another, and another; in fact, thejolcano was in continuous and heavy erupSon until a late hour that night and the effect of the blnck column against the mDonlight was very impressive. During the night, the rumbling noise was very Pronounced, seeming to shake the ground at times as if an earthquake W ‘*On Sundayj again, the eruptions were almost continuous. 1 have never seen anything like it in my life before, and I almost began to think that that country was a good place to be out of. One outburst on Sunday afternoon was a terrific one. The volcano sent out a loud, warning boom across the country, and then up went a gigantic column of inkv blkok ash-laden steam, and this column seemed to whirl round and round, finally spreading out m cloud shape at a great height above the cone. On Monday, ogam, up till the time I left in the express, the volcano was in continuous eruption.”