LATEST PARTICULARS. Relieving Captain Ways Party.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 158, 26 June 1886, Page 2

LATEST PARTICULARS. Relieving Captain Ways Party.

Ko'iouuA, .lane 23. Seylkal absurdly exagyoratul h ports were cur. cab }<_steiday regticilng Captain Woy and his pasty, viho were stuck at Te Wairoa. I am ex- \ i I j fcremely glad to ■-ay that I did not stud you a scn-atioivi! report, bur waited for i events to develop them?eHo j. Mr Y. D j Johnston despatched Constable Cavanagh to Te Wairoa yesterday to render assistance, and the wholo party returned safely to town last night, v. itn the loss j of one horse which CavaDa-jli had to shoot. Mis Way had a very uncomfortable time in Wairoa, but acted vvuh the bravery of a spirited English lady. 'iheir goods are irrevocably lost. Te Houheu and his party of Taupo* natives returned home yesterday nvjrning, Mr and Mns Hooper arrived from Calitea last evening en route for Auckland. I am informed that all the natives have left Whakarewarewa, and fettled teinporaraly elsewhere till matters quieten down. Last night was a quiet and peaceful one, and there was nothing to disturb the serenity of our slumbers. It seems strange that whilst Government is so keen to notice and supply the wants of the natives of this district they absolutely ! refuse to recognise the claims of the European sufferers. Messrs McKae, Humphries, and the other Wairoa residents surely deserve a little consideration from both the Government and Insurance Companies. Mr H. D. Johnson-, Government Agent, I begins to look careworn. The constant anxiety which bis position entails eeenid to be undermining his health. Hi 3 office is besieged all day long with needy natives. Give me any position but that of Native Agent in Rotorua at the present time.

Excursions to Rotoznahana. Rotomahana is well patronited with visitors just now. Any fear which they might have had of visiting the awful spot seems to be vanishing, and as thoy return with mudbeepattered boots &nd clothes, they exhibit with considerable satisfaction the various specimens which they have collected during their visit. The weather has been very dull and threatening, with occasional heavy showers of rain. Professor Hutto^ was expected, by la^t night'e coach, to accompany Mr Boecawen, artist, to Rotomahana, but as he did not "arrive Mr Boscawen left for hiacamp without him, ' -„ , , • Tuhotu, who was buried 104 hours, is 1 still at the hospital: He was photographedi yesterday. Ac he enjoys the good-things at the hospital, life > must at least seem to him worth living for., , .' > , f.

■ ' ' Alleged Hairbreadth Escape. People here have been very much amused at reading in an Auckland paper « bloodcurdling account of a narrow escape of an

Auckland artist from being swallowed up by a volcano, along with a big slice of the crater— the Bpot on which he Btood having collapsed just after he left it. There were three people, fortunately, present at thia scene, and this is" how the third man (Mr Barton) describes it:— Messrs Steele and Blomfield went down the almost precipitous hill to the lower terrace of land, right on to the edge of the crater near the Pink Terrace, and got a bettor view. The story about the narrow escape of these two gentlemen must have had its origin in the vivid imagination of somebody or other, because I knew nothing of it until I saw it in print. I can say, however, that the edge of the crater was in precisely the same condition when we left as it was when we arrived there.