GENERAL REMARKS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1518, 12 June 1886, Page 2

GENERAL REMARKS.

Mount Tarawera is a remarkable mountain in the hot lake districts. It ia about 160 mile ■ from Auckland, and yet the noiie was heard in that city fo plain that people went out to the Head*, thinking that tome vexel had gone aihore, and that the aonnde heard were dis* troii lignali, In Wanganui, which ii equally diatant,tbe police went to the mouth of tke river on a rimilar errand. In Tauranga, which ii about 60 mile* diitant, the imoka was io deme that the people had to me lantarm to go about the itreete at 10 o'clock in the morning Day became as dark ai night, and a ihower of enlphnrom dnit fell. In Napier, about 180 miles, an earthquake was fait, and a low rambling noiie continued until 7 a.m. In Blenheim and Pietor>, in the north of thii Island, reports like gam firing were heard. Dr Hector, with two aniitanta, haa gone to the scene of the ernptiom. All the houses in Wairoa are burned. Mr Hazard, who perished, was a printer by trade, and formerly on the staff of the Otago Daily Times, when Sir J. Yogel was editor, and Mr B. L. Far jeon was head of the commercial department of that paper. Mr Hazard was overseer printer, and made up the first issue of tha Otago Daily Times. Subsequently he took charge of Ibis Native school. Hs was about sixty years of age, and a staunch blue ribbonist.