NGARUHOE ACTIVE

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4384, 11 March 1909, Page 2

NGARUHOE ACTIVE

A TREMENDOUS ERUPTION

Tai po, March 10A TREMENDOUS eruption at Nsarubo| took pi see yesterday. 1 ™ £ ear with great interest and not a little tear by passengers and tonrMson ihe ove.laud route by coachf.om Waionrn toTokaana. About 4 a.m. the dbv a half-way house were awaken d y heavy rumbling and explosions at 11 o’clock when an upheaval colored_ on ?bo wiste-n side of the crater which seem, d to be blown clean away, as that 'side is now much lower than formeily. Some visitors who have seen Stro i. boll and VeS, active, say the - °E now witnessed is superior m effect t those famous volcanoes. rnose Wanganui March 10. The effects of the Ngauruhoe eru Pji loll are "being felt at Wanganui, 60 miles distant from the mountain. Attack i,..„ e is hanging over the town, and th is distinctly 0 charged with sulphurous fumes. Wellington, March 10. A sharp shock of earthquake was ielt at Wellington at 4.40 this morning.