THE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1534, 20 July 1886, Page 3

THE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS.

The Tuorangi tribe hare decided to leave the bodies found at Wairoa where they are, and to close the Wairoa road, as it is now nothing more than the entrance to a tomb, Professor Hutton arrived in Auckland on Saturday night from the lake country, with Professor Brown, He considers that the volcanic action is gradually dying out, nod believes vegetation will again grow over the deposit at Wai'oa, and make the district again inhabitable. He leaves- for Christchurch by Tuesday’s steamer. Professor Brown has gone toTauranga, with a view of going along the ooaat to measuring the depth of the paud deposit, and collecting scientific data concerning tbe eruption. Professor Thptnas hag Returned tp Auckland froin Ohinemutu. He report* tba| ajl t|ie Buproi} ggy'gers qre active, Go Friday he made an inspaction of the field of scoria boulders reported to have fallen at Fikerangi, betweea Auckland and Te Ngui. , Two celebrated and favorite batha—the Painkiller and the Priest’s—are now, for

the present, at least, rendered useless, on account of the general subsidence at the Obinemutu end of Rotomshana lake which is flowing into them.

Mr Burrows, the District Engineer, has gone to visit the outlet of Lake Rotorua, for the purpose of seeing if there is a possibility of deepening or of cutting a new channel altogether. Thi« lake has still another 18 inches to rise to come up to its normal wintsr level. In a conversation which the correspondent of the Presa had with Mr Mcßae, he expressed strong disnent from aomoof ihe views expressed by Dr Hector respecting the recent volcanic outbreak. Ho asserts moat positively that so far from the recent effects being merely produc'd by steam, without any actual fire being manifested, the glare of the Tarawera fire on the fateful night was awful in its vividness, while be is equally clear ns to the ejection of red hot stones and other incandescent matter. He further stales that (he effects of dry heat are perceptible in ail directions.

The testimony is still very conflicting as to Tongariro and Ruapehu, but there is no donbt as to their shape and size remaining unchanged.