VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. Auckland), November 30.

Otago Witness, Issue 2231, 3 December 1896, Page 19

VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. Auckland), November 30.

The activity on Tongariro continued all last week. The scene is continually changing, and most interesfcißg outbursts are being witnessed, the best being seen from Taupo. One day it was Ketetahi, and the next it would be Te Mare, while Ngauruhoe maintained a fairly regular emission of white nteam ; but the other two were erratio, though it is from Te Mare that the real eruption, accompanied by dirt and smoke, comes. There is every appearance ol a fresh outlet above Te Mare. A party of tourists .intend ascending the mountain this wesk, and their guide will examine tho locality and report any material ohange or alteration. j Rotohoa, November 30. Te Mare, Taupo, is again aotive. A large auantity of smoke is being ejected to a great fieighb, ob»curing Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu.

Lloyd's Register of Shipping has issued a return of vessels totally lost, condemned, <fee., from Ist Ap.il to the 30th June 1896, from which it appears that 13 iron steamers with. 28,961 tona -register were broken up and condemned ; 1 irou steamer of 943 tons and 3 wood ard composite of 1055 tons were burnt. Two steel steamers with 3908 tons, 7 iron with 8135 tons were lost in collision. One iron steamer of 113 tons and 2 wood and composite of 1060 tons were lost by toundexing. ~And 1 steel steamer of 2784 tont w*s reported missing, while 4 steel steameis cf 55 iS tons, 12 iron of 21,502 tons, uud 1 wood ur.fi cwwposite of 121 tons werfi wrecked. Of w.ntng vessels the return snows that 1 ateel fottMnwtoa barque, the Gowanbank, of £205 toius. vnt aboar doned at sea off Cape Horn on April 27 ; 3 iron vessels of 3.178 tons and 9 wood and composite of 4783 tons were also abandoned. One iron sailing vesssel of 443 tons and 24 wood and 'composite with 10,788 tons were broken up and condemned. Two steel vessels with 4762 tons, 1 iron of 1599 tons, and 4 wood and composite wittt 3165 tona were burnt. Two iron vessels with 2077 tontr, r and, 7' wood and composite with 2009 tons were rloß,fbyr loB,fby collision,' Two wood and composite vessels with 678 tdns foundered, land 1 Wooden vessel of 819 tons; tho barque 'David, is put down a§ lost. The .vessels posted during tho quarter as missing were 2 steel with 1287 ton», 3 iron with 3259 tons, and 7 wood and composite with V>** tons ; •while- 3 steel vessels with 2015 tone, 7 * ran , w , i , t .5 8546 tons, and 38 wood and compoeit&'witli 16,043 tons are returned as wreoked.' Taitfs Best of All swede, reoommended by the New Zealand Government, is only Qbtainabla torn Nlmmo and Blair, Danedin.— Advt.