The Volcaic Disturbance.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2330, 25 June 1886, Page 2

The Volcaic Disturbance.

■.'/.. United Press ; AssooiATib%, irtqioßVA, this c^Bk' A northeaster has been blowing and it has beon raining without intermission all yesterday,. Lundii of'. Blyths's ,::steff returnedthis afternoon from Rotomahana,"" reports Bosoa'wen and Morgan (tho guide,) as having a frightfultimo of it at oamp through'a gale lust iiiglvtV Gould, not \ sleep for earthquake shooks.- The ienkj polos bent down, and the tont threatened / to collapse over them. Thoy hacl to go outandpropit up. .-•„;■' It transpired to-day that nothwlthstan. ding the warnings given by.tho'fate-'of Ray's Wairoa expedition, Messrs Minetfc, Gregory, and Batty went to .Wairoa yesterdayaiid no communication has been Binco'received from them nor havo >hey returned to Kaiteriria, It is supposed they are staying quietly at Wairoa till tho present .'north-westerly gale has exhausted itself and with their supplies and the remainder of the contents of. Mcßae's cellar are holding out comfortably. Johnson, the aovernment agent, however, deemed it prudont to dispatch Constable Oavanhagh to look them up and ascertain their safety. With present pitiless storm going'on they must haVe an awful time of it hemmed in amid Wairoa avalanches and mud glaciers. > The contractors for the RotorUa waterworks reported to Malfroy, inspecting engineer, that in cutting the plpejpck up the side of Pukorda Hill they $1 on reaching a depth of two feet comHipon ground "v '• ' hat they wero compelled '- :■•';•. ::ding in the treuoli and re wero Borne shocks of earthquake the day, one sharp one at 3 p.m., and'earthtremors at Sulphur fyint were !* almost continuous. A telephone message/. was received at Taheke that severeshooka were felt at Rotoiti at S.o'clook yesterday afternoon.' A roport was brought by a Native from Whakarewarewa that the oil bath was throwing up stones and mud a height of 20 feet, and that the large boiling Papatanui suddenly foil-two feet and rose to its old level, and was falling and rising throughout the day, A Native policeman went out to investigate, and states that the report is perfeotly true. On. Sunday, at mid-day a peculiar phenomenon oc-' ourred at Great Kuiria Cauldron, which"suddenly subsided two feet, and in half', an hour it returnod to its former level and to the state of activity which it"has-, presented sinco the Tarawera eruptioat'"" Information was reoeived this 6v<Aa from some of the sanatorium | two fresh plaoes have broken out at Whakarewarema up hill last night,-and another this morning. Messrs Bush and Hinds report that the place where they. • used to wok at Whakarowaiema'has dried up, and is now. throwing up stones. Some more residents are leaving Rotorua unable to bear the mental strain, through the earth tremors and the vague undefined fooling of apprehension. A later telephone meßsago from Rotoiti j states that a tidal wave on tho lake mS'i to the stable atFraser's hotel at Tahbke^' 107 yards distant. The difference in theVlevel is three feet. The residents did not •! see the wave approaohing.'but on rushing ■ ■' out saw it reosding.