MOUNT NGAURUHOE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 38, 10 March 1909, Page 2

MOUNT NGAURUHOE

VIOLENTLY All'lYK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington* Tuesday. Tile pur>t ollieo has received advice ihatiMouutNga<uruhoe is in active eruption, large clouds of smoke being emitted. Sulphurous dust has fallen, covering the ground in a thin coating to a depth of oue-sixteenth of an inch. Taihape, Tuesday. The eil'ectts of the eruption at Ngaiu'uhoe are very evident here. The town is enveloped in clouds of dust, and the tops of the hills are obscured. Great ineonvenienee is being .suffered to «yei and throat by the dust floating like fog over the district.

DENSE VOLUMES OF SMOKE AND ASIJIOS ISSUING FROM THE CRATEII. INHABITANTS MUCH ALARMED. Wellington, La»t Night. The Acting-Secretary of the General i'oriL Ollite Jias received the following telegrams f.onu post and telegraph olli eers regarding the eruption at Ngauru hoe:

From Waiouru—Ngauvuhoe .became very active early this morning. Loud reports wire heard at about 1 a.m. and the sky ha* been very overcast with dust and sulphurous a-hes ail day. aad al present shows no sign of abating. H is umler.si ond I hat. the coach front lokiiiuu was unable lo leave there lor Waiouru.

From .Karioi—-Nut sujv Ngamuhoe or Tonjariro. but think Xguuruhoe. Early thi» morning Kuriui had a flight coatftijj of a light slutish colored ash. No one heard any tvport. L'ar»e volnme.s of smoke are yoing up a»d travelling due east toward- Kaiman'a, probably from change of wind. No alarm <>r danger is expected. From Apili—Volcanic dust has heen falling lure Miice 2.H0 p.m. to-day. Reports to hand say Ngauruhoe is in

eruption. I'mm Ohukmie—Xjiauruhoe eruption started 5 p.m. yestenl;\v with a rnmblinjr noise lasting three «r four J'ours. Smoke ami. steam are -at prrsciit rising two to till' I '' thousand feet, obscuring Huapelni. Some new geysers appear to ! liuve broken out at tlu' foot of Uuapelm |oii tlie Waimariiio side. Ohaknne was sprinkled with dust from tin- mountain | this morning. From Toliiiaim—Npiui'iilioc Imrst at 8 o'clock this morning. throwing forth thick volumM of sand and steam. Tlic volcano lias been continually ni eruption ever since, with light reports. Xo earthquakes. Will wire you later developments and further detail*. Lava is running: down Xgauruhoe. ilr. Hope, tin- Kaiipataua correspomlent of tlio New Zealand Times, telegraphs that Xpauruhoe is violently active. Dense volumes of smoke and ashe s arc issuing from the cvA.tcv. Rangataua and all districts to the southward ol Xguurulioe were covered with a thin layer of aslies tlu« morning. Tokaanv also reports that Tongariro is in orup tion. The inhabitants in the distiic' cannot sec tor the. smoke, and are mucl | alarmed.