Ngauruhoe in Eruption.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 269, 18 May 1907, Page 2

Ngauruhoe in Eruption.

All doubts as to there having been volcanic outbursts at Ngauruhoe are set at rest by the result of the ascent made by a party from Wellington on Wednesday last, including our special correspondent. The brief telegram from the camp near that mountain, which we received yesterday evening, having been sent to Waioru from the camp, gives sufficient particulars to enabje our readers to gather the exact position of affairs. Apparently the ascent must have been a perilous one, and the imagination easily follows the terse description of the stiff climb up the icy slopes of the mountain in the teeth of a bitter southerly gale, culminating with the descent into the very crater of the volcanic mountain itself. Such a trip is venturesome enough in ordinary times, but just now it was fraught with considerable danger both from within and withI out this magnificent specimen of seismic activity. The achievement is a notable one, and we congratulate the members of the party on having accomplished their mission successfully without any untoward results.