RESCUE OPERATIONS. MAN SAVED ALIVE AFTER BEING FOUR DAYS BURIED. Rotorua, 4 p.m.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 157, 19 June 1886, Page 4

RESCUE OPERATIONS. MAN SAVED ALIVE AFTER BEING FOUR DAYS BURIED. Rotorua, 4 p.m.

The search party at Wairoa have dug out a native chief, pupposed to bo 110 years old. He was alive, and able to Fpeak after having boon buried five feet underground for 104 hourB. He haa arrived at Kotorua alive. Statement of a Man Who Witnessed tfie Volcano Brealc Out. Harry Burr, who was at Galatea, appears to have had an opportunity of Beeing the eruption from a different standpoint to most people. He says : —An electric streak first woke me up and then I heard a roaring. I looked toward Rotorua and saw nothing. It was a clear, starlight night. I heard another roar, and watched a few minuteß, Suddenly an awful fire burst forth, and one side of the mountain was thrown out towards Mount Egmont. Then the other eide burst out, and directly after Tarawera mountain top was lifted right off. For some time it kept falling in front, bhe Bide to the centre carrying whole forests of timber into the enormous crater. The volcano burnt for half-anhour, when after a lot of the projecting peaki had tumbled into the crater, the eruptior suddenly ceased, the crater having goi choked up with material of an incombustible nature— clay or rock. Th« effect of this stoppage was an immediate explosion at ftotomahana, succeeded by a continued eruption, extending for five miles long by a mile and a-hall wide. It is my opinion that the Terraces are destroyed. The scene in their locality is one of columns of boiling water in every direction. Okaro Lake, formerly cold water, is now a boiling lake. The eides of the hills are covered with mud. I was two days gettng into Rotorua. I saw

A Curiously Shaped Block of Pumice, with the writing on it " Kopua Koi." The oldest natives who have seen it were not aware of its existence. I was hit all over my body and head, with stones, and nearly suffocated at times.