LATER.
Buggies have just ucturnad from the Wairoa. There has been a terrible catastrophe. The Native Schoolhouse was struck by lightning, and while moving the inmates were overwhelmed with torrents of hot mud and stones. Mr ■ Hazard and family are all dead, excepting the two eldest girls, who were saved by Mr Lumsden pulling them through the window. McCrae's Hotel is demolished, and one tourist stay- : iii.l? there is missing. The servants, and 1 also Mr Humphries, who have come in state that the ' mud ' nearly knocked them down. McCrae and Humphries are still out ,in their buggies'- as they cannoti.get i-past- tile Tikilkpu bush: l- Several 8 natives ' are known ' to be killed. I think there is no hope for those at Teariki and More. lam going out with the relief party to see what can be done.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 157, 19 June 1886, Page 2
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139LATER. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 157, 19 June 1886, Page 2
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