WAIMANGU GEYSER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 84, 13 April 1915, Page 7

WAIMANGU GEYSER.

A BRILLIANT AWAKEWINC. Feb Pkkss Association. Wellington, April 12. The following is a copy of a telegram received by the secretary of the Post Office from the postmaster at Rotorua : "Guide McCormack reports that the Waimangu geyser, which has been dormant for years, broke out at 2 p.m. and gave a brilliant dispjay lasting over an hour, the highest shoot being about 400 feet. A round-trip party had a few minutes previously been examining the crater, and were not very far away when they were startled by a terrific roar. All the debris fell in the opposite direction to tho party."

TOURISTS' UNIQUE EXPERIENCE WITNESS TO AN ERUPTION. Rotorua, April 12. It appears that a party of nine visitors had a unique experience of witnessing an outburst. They were standing on the top of a hill overlooking the old crater, and the guide was explaining its former activities, when a rumbling noise was heard, followed by the sound of a muffled yet terrific report. A Hew seconds later, with another terrific report, the whole mass was hurled in the air, rocks weighing in some cases as much as five tons being sent 300 and 400 feet high, the material rising in a heavy dark brown mass to a height of GOO feet, when it dissipated into a white vapour, which rose another 300 feet.