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United Press Association. Taupo, this day, During'th» past week several residents of Taupuahauru,' fifty-one miles distant from Ruapehu, have witnessed at intervals volumes of steam issuing from the summit of the mountain. At present it is one mass of snow, The steam seemed to rise at the side of the crater, which the natives say has been recognised as extinct from time immomorial. Chklstohurch, this day, During the storm the premises of Oowlin, at Governor's Bay, were destroyed by one of the creeks coursin? down the hillside becoming diverted from its course. The house was crushod to the ground, its inmates, Mr and Mrs Cowlin and an invalid daughter, escaping through the brokou window. The latter had to be diagged out in her nightdress. Donedin, this day. An inquest on the body of Mrs Finch who was killed by the explosion was commenced to-day,' but it was adjourned until Thursday.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2299, 19 May 1886, Page 2
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151TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2299, 19 May 1886, Page 2
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