BELCHING OUT FIRE BALLS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 952, 20 October 1910, Page 4

BELCHING OUT FIRE BALLS.

BEHAVIOUR OF NGATTEUHOE. | (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, October 19. . Messages from Ohakune state that Ngauruhoe is still very active. The extent of the latest outbreak is variorcsly. reported. One eyewitness declares that, on Monday evening when th©' volcanic outburst was at its height, flames shotinto the air from the crater,, and one or tivo fireballs or masses of semi-molten rock were hurled skyward several hundred feet. . : Mr. S. Crowther, who is thoroughly acquainted with the district, and also with the idiosyncrasies of Ngauruhoe, : and is connected with the coaching business between Waiouru and Tokaariu, stated in a telegraphic message that the mountain on Monday night was throwing up smoke and steam to a height qf over 1500 feat, while the flames were shooting up to a height of about 50 feet.; He stated, moreover, that he saw two fireballs explode about 500 feet above the. crater. The stationmaster at Waimarind also saw. what he - stated to be flashes of light on Monday; evening from'the volcano while, from .'..lKb '-. accompanying, rumblings' and disturbances, he was inolihed to the opinion that a part of the crater lip had fallen in. ' One or two others corroborated the: account. of. a fiery; exhibition; but others,' on the . other hand, state that the activity was confined to the shooting. skyward of dense masses" of smoke and volcanic dust, which drifted slowly away before an easterly wind.'. •;