NGAURUHOE ACTIVE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1014, 6 November 1917, Page 2

NGAURUHOE ACTIVE.

SPECTACULAR OUTBURSTS. (Pub Peers Association < TAI M \.i; I N l 1, Nov. The outburst from 7N T '/;im >ihoc <>n Saturday night and ;i 11 day <m Sunday untl to day were felt onrehqmdaes here. aeeompanted by ;i noise like the boomin',' of distant cannon. <)n Sunday and to dav number.-, ascended the hills at Tanmaruinn and saw many spec (ocular outbursts from the volcano cone, the volumes of smoke rising rajiidly geyser like to a great height. There was a colossal outburst id 12.30 and another at 2.30 to-day. The vibration was such that windows rallied. AUCKLAND, Nov. 6. The activity displayed by Nguiiruhoe since October 20 became'great ly intensified dining the week-end. From 9 o'clock on Saturday evening until 3 on Sunday afternoon tho volcano was continuously in option. A gig an Use explosion lyce.uer-ed at 10.40 on Saturday night, stones being thrown to a groat height, while a vast i|Uiinlil', of lava flowed down tile mountain side. Ihe lava overflowed from the crater again at midnight. The volcano is comparatively ipiiel to-day. Professor Thomas slides that Ngaurnhoe is emitting lava for the host time since the eruption of 1859.