THE RECENT ERUPTION. Disquieting News from Rotorua. PROFESSOR HUTTON'S REPORT. [BY OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2181, 1 July 1886, Page 3

THE RECENT ERUPTION. Disquieting News from Rotorua. PROFESSOR HUTTON'S REPORT. [BY OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Rotokua, June 30. Natives from Rotoiti who are fleeing to, Maketu and the sea coast report seVero fihocks of earthquake at short intervals for the last few nights in that locality ; also that lake Rotonui, lyinsr 20 miles northeast of here, is quite warm. t A body of t-te.uu was seen o\or lake Rotorua by the Rev. Mr Goodyear when returning to Maketu. * ' Rotorua lake has been rising and falling four inches daily. 7 o'clock la,st night a severe shock of earthquake was felt here, the direction being from ea^t. to west. ' Professor Hutton returned from Rotomahana volcano last evening. He does not think there is any likelihood of a renewal of the eruption.

Auckland, Wednesday. Col. McDonnell, writing from Ma-^terton to Mr dudgeon, Auckland, says : " I only returned yesterday from Karioi, a station belonging to Messrs Morrio, Studboluie and Co., at the foot of Ruapehu mountain. I rode over on Sunday to Owlmoko ranges, which are snow-covered. From there, though 80 odd miles straight from Tarawera, I could see a volume of steam^nd nmoke rising upwards. The mountain Totigariro, or really Ngauruhoe, has altered in shape. It must be 90 miles from Tarawera and 10 -from Ruapehu. As I remember it, it was. shaped as a perfect cone ; now it is like a cone with part of the top and one side gone. I think the top has caved in. The mountain sftems to have lost about one-fifth its heiarht* Ruapehu, ever known as an extinct volcano, showed signs of life, %Ml emitted steam aud smoko jets and fire; and now there are several boiling springs on the north-western slopes on the Wanganui side. Don't thfnk this mountain will explode, but good-bye to Taupo and W*ng»nuiifso."