THE VOLCANIC DISTURBANCE.

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 25, 16 June 1886, Page 2

THE VOLCANIC DISTURBANCE.

1 (FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTERS.) DR. HECTOR AT fiOTOMAHANA. Kotoeua, lottf inxK> Dr. Hector returned late to-night covered v.-itli mud and dust. He reached Rotoniahana by the Kaitoriria track. Tho lake was in tho condition already described, scattered with fnmaroles actively throwing up and catching big stones. Through rifts in tho steam glimpses wore got of a great crater on tho Tarawera side which was also vomiting out stones and clouds of Bteam, but thoro was no trace of tho lake. The steam cloud rises to a hoight of 11,000 feet. Dr. Heotor thinks it foolhardy to approach theso fumarolea too near until tho deposits around them have settled. Near ono Where the footsteps of an over-curious excursionist wero iuarkod the strata showed oiteiwite waokfi, which proved tho instability of tho «tn»nd. Tho canoe servico on Lake Rotokakahi in sttooefcsfully established. The excavations at Waifoa village are practically abandonod, as tho goods are not worth the cost of getting* out. To Kespa says that all tho bnnod nativos who wr*9 »n their wlwres havo boon recovered : tho others missing are known to have died outside, Tife Maoris found by Capt. Mair on the shores of Trifawcra would probably havo porishod had assieta-*^ not been rendered them. They had oome oVo* to seok their friends at Te Araki settlement, unaware that they would get no sustenance, and it iv doubtful whether they would havo got book safoly.