VOLCANIC OUTBURSTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13487, 14 May 1907, Page 5

VOLCANIC OUTBURSTS.

STROMBOLI AND ETNA ACTIVE- > By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. Rome, May 12Stromboli is" erupting with increase . ) ing violence, and the outbursts art* accompanied by , loud rumblings* Masses of stone, ashes, and lava are being thrown towards the inhabited 1 ~ portions of the island en the eastern side. *■< ~ 1 On Mount Etna, also, new craters 1 are being formed, and immense J columns of steam are being emitted. ,1 Mr. Frank Perpet, a seismologist, % has visited both volcanoes, and re- | ports that the ' disturbances re- ; ; semble those that preceded the out- |j| break at Vesuvius in 1905. if ' '• . :' ■ -■■" i '"'J __ .'■■"': fj Stromboli became very active in. April, . 1905. "As some tourists wore looking into ;| the crator there was a sudden outburst of -< j gas, .and Professor Shultz and several other s people were injured. In May of last year ;- | there were reports of violent outbursts, and | at the'end of last month there was « great ''; i explosion, which shattered alf the windows If in the , neighbourhood. The shock also 1 severed the cable between Stromlx)!} an<l 1 iLipari Islands. Etna has been in eruption ■ •■ % periodically for many, centuries. Vb was in I continuous " eruption for nine months, in I IJS2-S3, and it became violent again in -I 1892. In January ; last • ifc was reported to l 1 be emitting smoke and red fire. . THE NEW ZEALAND VOLCANOES. - RUAPEHU AND NGAURUHOE.. ;-J . ~ ; • ■ . — . . J A GOVERNMENT INSPECTION. 1 [BY TELECEAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] ' : lWaiottbh, Monday. .'& The mountains in this district are covered ';'.■■ with cloudis, bub occasionally loud booming '!' explosions, apparently from Ngauruhoe, cam .''■'■' M be heard. ' f| [BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] % ' ' '-■HI Wellington, Monday. '.''|§ Messrs. Cowan and McDonald, of thei . ;^| Tourist Department, who. were recently, dc-, m spatched to report on the thermal activity, \. ■?$ in the region of Mounts Ngauruhoe and Ruin pehu, report:—"We have been here since ' /*' Wednesday. The weather has been well Jf and stormy, and we are waiting for a clear % day. ' rWe have; heard occasional booming - r£ reports . from the Ngauruhoe crater, which- ~;||« is about five miles north-west from onr hut, jftj but the mountain is enveloped in fog. Wo .j| will first ascend Mount Ngauruhoe, and then '$ try Mount Ruapehu." ' t fj Mr. Cowan will report upon the condi** -\'W\ •tion of affairs at the mountains, and Mr. &{) McDonald will take photographs, for the ' m Department. ' '£|".