MAJOR MAIR'S REPORT.

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 24, 15 June 1886, Page 3

MAJOR MAIR'S REPORT.

'' Botorua, This Day, 2 p.m. Captain Mair has returned to Oninemutu. He reports that the boat, after leaving Wairoa, proceeded direct across Tarawera to To Ariki settlement. Found the bay formerly there olilitered by the shore of Tarawera Lake having advanced 400 yards. Tho whole site of the settlement was covered SO feot deep with fine duet, still "hot, ovor which was a cootlng of fonr inches of mud. No ' trace ot the- sottlemont or creek, could-bi) discovered. We obtained a good view of Rotomahana. The place where the White Terrace stood is now occupied by an immense fumarole. The Terrace is destroyed. In tho upper end of tho Lako aconsiderable amount of water is visible, but tho greater part is ocoupied by mud volcanoes and futnarolea. The rent inßidc of Tnrawora from whioh the mischief began is about 900- feet long by fivo .wide, and extends nearly to the summit of the mountain. At the Bido next Rotomahana some .parts of this vast chasm still show activity. There are deposits of sulphur, about the crater, but it was clearly ascertained that there j is no lava. At Morea settlement the party ; landed' waist deep in mud. The settlement had slipped bodily into the laker On returning to Wairoa it took ovor two hours to got from the boat up to the top of the hill. A party of nine natives from Mataka had oomo over in searoh of their relatives and were without provision or water, having, waded through tho dcop volcanic deposits, Major Mair gave all tho food and water they had. The Maoris then started homeward. There is no great distress from the disaster, and nothing freßh has occurred at Wairoa, and there aro no landships. It is now computed that altogether 97 natives lpst thoir lives. EAST COAST ERUPTIONS DYING OUT. Botorua, This Dat, 3.6 p.m. Somo natives arrived from Galatea state that all reports about further eruptions on the East Coast are lies. All points of eruption aro dying down.