(FROM OUR OWN SPECIAL REPORTER.)

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 22, 12 June 1886, Page 3

(FROM OUR OWN SPECIAL REPORTER.)

EXPEDITION TO THE TEBRACES. THE MOURA AND~TE ARIKI PAHS. Kotostta, This Dat, 0 a.m. A party of natives who have been in search of thoir rolatives, supposed to be in the three buried pahs, have returned from Eatoiti' after an i unsuccessful day's operations! They are rapidly repairing a boat, intending to toko it overland 10 miTos and cross Koto? mahana Lake, and so get across at tho back of tho locality ■ Up to the present, they >-B!KS *Z %or living things in the VSS& I twhor^ft°P a ' 18 were8itnXtod. An • S£3£ «. "s»*tKmha« just started to deterannfli the fate oftho beautiful Pink and X!- Ter M CC8 T P^y consist of 20, including Mr. James Stewart, engineer of ■ !£& o^' T llO Eventno Post speoialand Dr. Hector aro expected to fol- < low. The party is equipped with tonts and bags of provwions for several days. They wilL take the Kaitana track, which loaves Wairoa ' I^lj-*^? l - T fr^ m Wa >roa, winding rounfl the KwtinaUke to Botokkkahi, ten mil€ B ■ distant fromEotomahana. Mr. Fairbrottier is determined to make an ascent to-da# of the nigh range overlooking tho torraoes. A nativo named. Mehaka- and wife wrived from Mourn the night of the eruption, and so escaped.- They brought their daughter to have vbnrnod arm treated by the Botorua doctor. HQie man says the settlement must . be. completely ctestoo/ed, with twenty Maoris

and tho Chief Hakaraia. He thinks tho adjacent Rettloincnt of Te Ariki with 40 men and thoir chief Rangihena are also destroyed, togothor with an Englishman named Brown, a baker by trade, formerly resident in the Waikato. These natives were the remnant of a once powerful tribe. Only one of their numbor escaped, happening to be near Rotorua. Holamentsthe destruction of his people, and bewails his lot as "tho last of the Mohicans." Now tho shocks havo subsided and the ashes ceased blowing about, desperate efforts are being made to penetrate the country in the direction of each settlements. A yet I cannot form an opinion as to tho extent of country injured or actual settlement)* destroyed . The tracks have been obliterated for milcß. The nativoa consider the Government aro showing disgraceful apathy in not sending to the succour of possible survivors. Great anxiety is felt as it is conjectured that natives of the burned settlements may bo still surviving in caves, and the Government should authorise the expenditure, which will be only about £50. Tho Green Lake is Btill Bmoking, and Rotorua Lake rising this morning. The contractor and men engaged driving piles in the latter for a retaining wall round the bath have had to cease operations. Dr. Gindera reports that the Springs remain uninjured. Madam Rachel'B and the Priest's Bath still show increasing volume and temperature. The smoke and steam is Btill rolling along the range in greater quantities. Indications generally are not so favourable as yesterday. Wairoa, This Day, Noon. Men hard at work. No sign of Bainbridge. No moro Maoris dug out. Four cats and a dog dug out alivo, and two pigH.