pHE SCENE PBOM NEW PLYMOUTH.
Ihe following information has been telegraphed to MoKerrow, Surveyor-General, by Mr T, Humphries, Chief Surveyor at New' Plymouth, who is a particularly accurate observer :— " The eruption at Tarawera was a fine sight here all day yesterday (Sunday). The column at i p.m., when I saw "it, -was by computation from observation with a 6-inch transit theodolite 21,000 feet high above sea level. It had all day a rose ; colored tinge,, but -with deep red glare near my horizon rolling and heaving. None of this was visible on Saturday, though equally a clear Bky. The height of Tarawera Mountain being 1961ft, the above shows that the column which we saw reached vertically four miles above the mountain.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 144, 18 June 1886, Page 3
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121pHE SCENE PBOM NEW PLYMOUTH. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 144, 18 June 1886, Page 3
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