The Volcanic Disturbance.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2323, 17 June 1886, Page 2

The Volcanic Disturbance.

liihtkd Press Association. Rotortja, this day. It is doubtful whether Mr Mcßae willget the amount of his insurance, -£I2BO, from the Union Company as the destruction is from volcanic eruption. The matter will be fully considered by the directors of the company. Mrs Hazard and daughters have left hero for Auckland. Most of those sent to the scene of disturbance on Special duty are returning, Percy Smith, assistant Surveyor General, arrived here last night. He says he spent Sunday and Monday at tho south eiidof the volcanic eruption near Okaro. The southern crater k 200 yards long, 250 yards wide, ilnd 350 feet deep. He examined tho back of the pink terraie and- found that both it and the white terrace are blown up and there is ouly a crater remaining, The country is shelving into the crater as it eats down to the foot of the lake, and the country round Lake Rotomahana is all in motion to the lake, as some seven' volcanoes eat out its bottom. .At. Wairoa he found that' the Maori who' had discovered a woman coming from Waitangi had abandoned her, and that the natives had not gone out,to, bring her in." He started with a party of Europeans and natives along the mud track, and found the woman three miles north of Wairoa. She had been aix.daya - without food or water, and was w&nderipg in her mind. She was carried to Kaiteriria, and it is expeeted she will recover. Smith returned to Auckland on Friday; ..but hopes to return when the weather is better, to examine the Tarawera'mountain ranges, especially at the back. Ho believes the rain no.v falling will clear the hills of mud, and make them aocessible, but will practically destroy Tara« wera Lake, and still further alter its appearance. Nota living thing.is now in .' Wairoa, but it is believed that natives will peril their lives to reach and plunder Mcßae's store. Mr Edwards, .Native Interpreter, has made a number of excellent series of rough sketches, showing many features of the volcanic action, on Tarawera. A slight shbck'of earthquake was' felt at 0,30 last night. Rotomahana is moderately active.