THE TARAWERA FALLS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12713, 16 November 1904, Page 5

THE TARAWERA FALLS.

PECULIAR COINCIDENCES. Oral Rotorua correspondent writes:—The latest information regarding the Tarawa Falls is to the effect that the volume of water going over the precipice has very, | much decreased, in accord with the corres- iponding drop in the lake, and as the only source of supply to the lake, bovond the i actual fall of rain, is the water from the ; Wairoa Fall, the supposition is that when the water has receded to its normal state, the falls will cease to exipt beyond what has been there for many years. • On Wednesday last Mr. Warbrick. accompanied by Captain Turner, marie a visit .to the falls, the latter with the object | of inspecting the best route for a road. | Captain , Turner places the drop at Hot . more than ?00ft,' but considers the fall a ' very fine one. What effect the continual outflow of water from the lake will have is mere conjecture. Rather a strange coincidence in connection with the break away of the hank , which took 1 place yesterday week, and the consequent lowering of the wafiar in the lake, I is that VVaimaniiu has not bJ'en active since the Tuesday following: in other words, it will be a fortnight to morrow since the geviiPi played, and it is now as quiet and ! peaceful-looking as it was , some months ago, when it een<®cd to he active for, a period of 10 weeks. On the other hand, the cookinu-pot at • WhakurewarGwa has been' so active since Saturday ,th»t much difficulty has been experienced by the wahines in keeping their i pots and can# in the water, and this morning thev had a .very busy time dancing around the. pool rescuing their oookinu utensils. Map?ie, who knows the vagaries of all the pools at Whakarewarewa, assures me thit she has never known the cooking-pot to be in so agitated a state. - Occasionally it becomes more active than umial, but this generally precedes a storm, and only lasts for an hour or two, whereas it bait been is a' state of more than ordinary agitation since Saturday. It may be,that the boisterous * weather we have experienced since Friday has something to do with the poofs activity, a# It has b*en blowing a gale since then, making > things generally disagreeable.