VILLAGE OP WAITANGI DESTROYED. The Only Survivor at Rotorua.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 157, 19 June 1886, Page 4

VILLAGE OP WAITANGI DESTROYED. The Only Survivor at Rotorua.

Rotorua, June 14. The old chief who was rescued yesterday s at the Sanatorium. He is gainino strength. No natives would touch him. The Rev. Fairbrother got his clothes off. He told Fairbrother that he did not know That had happened, but supposed that the what* had fallen in. He believed he would be rescued. He prayed to God con tinually, and had had no food. A native woman from Tokino or Waitangi villages, on the left hand side of Tarawera, looking from Waivoa, has come in, and reports nobody left but herself.

The Adventures of a Tourist. Mr Lucius Palmer, an English tourist, accompanied by hia guido, Mr Piiddy McIlroy, has been energetically assisting in the digging: out of entombed natives and Europeans, and on Saturdiiy bo attempted to leach the terraces. YVhen about 1(3 miles on the Galatea Road difficulties commenced >xa they got beyond the while gravel, and into a drift of white stuff like) flour. The road was rent in many places, and the ground shortly became ko broken and irregular, and tho deposit so deep, that they vreic unable to pro ceed through it. Piovioua to this they mot the loat surveyor, I3urt. The Litter warned them not to travel tht! road be had come. After going till they could see the tjieen ioliage on Mangakaramea, which is tha extreme limit of the volcanic diatuibxnce, thoy observed that all the inteivening country between Mangakaramca and the Tarawera volcanooa appeared to have been and .still was in a state of violent eruption. By the aspect of things they were) of opinion that the terraces had been completely destroyed. Under their feet \va<: a violent rumbling, while every now and then a fierce vent of steam would shoot up in their faces. After doing 19 miles they turned back, reaching Kotorua by dusk.

The Rotorun Lease. Mr Wilcox haa a residence on the Government township, and, by the look of things, he might yet have to receive compensation, aa the Government have a difficulty in keeping roada open, and thoso who have held on plucklly 10 their grounds may turn the tables in the next lawsuit over the Kotorua lease,

A Plucky Lady. Various parties have gone on expeditions towards the terraces. Mrs Graham made a spirited approach to the same, getting nearer than many gentlemen have. Mr Percy Smith, however, is not one to stand afar off w'th a six-horee power telescope, but animated with true British determination, aided by a desire to solve this (l burning " question, he will not return till he has put his foot down on the Terraoes, if there. In any case, the Assistant Surveyor- General ; is not the man to get into hot water, and in Messrs Baker and Blythe he has two good allies for such an expedition.