TAUPO. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Taupo, September 1st, 1886.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2209, 4 September 1886, Page 2

TAUPO. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Taupo, September Ist, 1886.

Last week was full of disasters. At Opepe, about half-past 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Samuel Crowther was woke by his hotel being on fire. Nothing was sared except the bedding and a few things out of the front of the hotel. They then took refuge in the dismantled stockade. The origin of the fire is unknown. Next, on Thursday night, an accident happened the schooner Bessie Bell, owned by Ross and Co. On returning from Tokano, a strong southwesterly pale sprung uu, with heavy snow and hail, and in t>pite of all her crew of three men could do, she was driven ashore on the eastern side of the Lake within a few yard* of where the schooner Dauntless was wrecked. The crew managed to pull hei up through the rocks till she wns partly protected from the heavy .surf, got out the cargo, and walked round into Taupo. Next day they took a dray and horurs and hauled her right up, ready for repairing. She is very much damaged, the rockt having smashed the greater part of her planks under the water line. On Sunday morning, just as the cutter Rose ( De Ferney'*) was leaving bound for Waihaha in the Western bay to take stores for Mr W. Cussen'a survey paity, and to fetch Mr Cussen over, news came in that Mr Cusuen, in returning to camp, h.id broken his leg. There i« no doctor here now, .so Dr Guldens, of Rotorua, was telegraphed for. He replied he could not come, and advised them to forward the patient to the hospital at Rotorua. Mr T. Freeman, the carrier to Lichfield, wna just ready to start for Lichtield with his covered light spring waggon, and he arranged to meet the men carrying Mr Cnssen, and take him on to Lichfield or Hamilton. I believe he met them yesterday close to Wakamaru, near Atiamuri. Quite enough of disasters for one week ! Yestordaj-, Mr L. M. Grace, M.H.R. for this district, arrived by coach \ia Napier. This morning the Crow's Nest geyser, after being^ quiet for more than a year, began playing again splendidly. It shoots up a column of steam and boiling water every two minute*. The (iev>er is between Taupo and Mr .To-hua'> Sanatorium and Tapapakuao Hotel (late L.oi!ey's),