NGAURUHOE AND TONGARIRO

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 79, 29 April 1909, Page 2

NGAURUHOE AND TONGARIRO

_-r "SMOKIXG FROM TWO COXES." ic e, By Telegraph.-Press Association. e- Taiiniarunui, April 27. a- Smouldering and smokhg, Xgauruaoe n- continues to be the sight ol the district, id Seen to-day from Manunui the mountain e- was very much like a deflating balhion ,-c which had become inverted. Smoke was pouring out liorcely in long spiral volumes, which drifted away northwards in a murky haze. At times the dense black clouds would issue out thicker and faster as if the Titanic stoker was putting on a spurt. The snowy slopes of Tongariro, and Ngauruhoc itself, 'nave been polluted bv falling iishes and cinders and changed into a great black ,-, waste, and it seems as if I'iie nnderi.i ground conllagration were spreading. •i- Manunui residents who have ascended a. the mountain state that there is no te doubt that the sides of the mountain al are, falling in, and the lire is coming ig down the mountain. Geysers are now in ■n operation at the foot of the slopes, anil it near the crater the earth crust shivers, t" and is hot underfoot. ,i- 'to-day Tongariro was smoking from r. Iwo of its cones. As to many of tliie al illustrations of Xgaurulioe uliich have it appeared, there is no doubt that they in have pictured tilings of the artists' r. imagination, and they have been real garded with much derision by the Xa's tives iu the vicinity, li,