LATER.

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LATER.

EARTHQUAKE LAST NIGHT.

1 All safe here. Awful shocks and rambling from 3.30 a.m. It was pitch dark wp to 6 a.m., and again from 7to 10 sun. Vol. canic ash is everywhere here, from half si inch to three inches deep.'.. A.shock occnis as I write. THE ERUPTION HEABD ATTAOUJJH New Plymouth, hut night Curious noises, iike explosions or tts firing of man-of-war gun? at aw, « heard about three this morning, .hang over an hour.

THE NOISE HEARD AT COBOBiMft

Coeohasdkl, Thursday. The eruption at Eottrua this morning was felt here like heavy discharges X artillery. DEPARTURE OF THE HKMOA TO TAURANGA,

WelungtoKi last ys> Mr Percy Smith, of Auckland, i» instructed to proceed to thereof™ eruption to observe the phenomenon. » Hinemoa left to-night for Tlffl«jft ti£ Dr. Hector and Mr J. H. P<>F> inent Inspector of Native SM*» been instructed to report to the|o«w» ment on the nature of the dg*» Those who are conversant *r& themk» of opinion that the <*r^ f'JS have escaped damage, and most pn>M»'J have totally disappeared.. , ■_, The news of the erupt.on -ow*" greatest excitementitt town,, and WP« iation of ''extra^wasanxioudyW* The following has been ««** » from a Eotorua man who amvrt i w Ngae. He reports three holes dowa £ sif miles north of here, andgPjs| road and country round b blue mud three feet deep. .«^Sj« ten feet deep. The houses aresUbnnw up to the eaves. A Sensational Beport. Oxford, Thursday, gj*, No news of the Eotoru* ogj/j!, known here, but in pa»»« "Jwd.t* Dibble stated that he.bad^'j^, grain from Rotorua that fort& « had perished. Two coach's; we» the aTrival of the tram rt^ for Rotorua to fetch «***f g>J morrow. The ordinary tram at five p m. to meet the special Auckland at Morrinsville. HELP SENT FROM CAf^J t At2.3othi S mornmgte^ Ktini ,# seen shooting up Wff, a loud report, whilst at otter un {ortt masses of flames were, w» » in the directioti of the Uke wu b, About 10 o'clock "fSJJL.iftrfl!* <vas received here, «*£ Mr W. K. Carter receivedi & teieg & him to start at once *J^* tion subsiding. ™ I) D A>* bodies recovered.-*- "■ -~^4l WWJfl"**1 j.jjiifrtmont has received thejo"^,^ from Rotorua : r , b°Y h6 ylootf 1%. Wairoa have arrived.. W they had been tbrong { rf, {l i-oa is ty ft^. B and flshes. At 10 hopea{ortf» ported There^rfjhi* settlements at Aiita o