Smith. — Volcanic Activity in Sunday Island in 1814. 47 



Nga whare o Kuini, 

 Ka tapua koe ra, 

 Te hua o te waero, 

 He taonga ruru tonn-e, 

 I roto te wliare kino, 

 Ka lie nga hau-e, 

 I a tatou, e te iwi-e ! 



Haere e Kara ! e Te Whare-o-riri ! 

 Haere atu i roto o Kaipara ! Haere 

 atu ki roto ki nga whare nunui o to 

 tana iwi, o te Pakeha ! 



Me mihi atu koe ki o tatou hoa 

 Pakeba ina tae atu kia kite i a koe ! 

 " Ko abau tenei, ko Te Whare-o-riri, 

 e mihi atu nei ki a kouton." 



Tena koutou, me to tatou Kuini 

 Wikitoria. Ma te Atua ia e tiaki, e 

 hoatu lioki te kaha, kia kaha ai ia 

 ki te -whakamarama i nga ture pai 

 mo tatou, kia rite te kupu o te 

 Waiata cxxxiii., 1 : " Na, ano te pai, 

 ano te ahuarekao tenohoanga tahi- 

 tanga o nga teina, o nga tuakana, 

 i runga i te whakaaro tahi." 



Heoi ano aku mihi ki a koutou ; 

 Tena koutou ! Tena koutou ! Tena 

 koutou ! 



Na Hami Tawaewae. 



To stately mansions of the Queen, 

 And there be sacred kept. 

 With many dog-skin garments. 

 Thou art a treasure closely prized 

 In the depths of this gloomy heart. 

 The winds seem gone astray 

 With us, people ! 



Go, oh sir ! Te Whare-o-riri ! Go 

 hence, depart from Kaipara ! De- 

 part to the mansions of our Euro- 

 pean people ! 



Thou sbalt greet our friends the 

 Pakebas when they come to visit 

 thee, saying, " 'Tis I, Te Wbare-o- 

 riri, that salutes you all." 



Salutations to you all, and to our 

 Queen Victoria 1 Maj' God protect 

 her, and give her power and strength 

 to enlighten us with good laws, that 

 the words of Psalm cxxxiii., ], may 

 be fulfilled : " Behold ! how good and 

 bow pleasant it is for brethren to 

 dwell together in unity." 



This is all my greetmg 

 Salutations ! Salutations ! 

 tions to you all ! 



From Hami Tawaewae 



to you. 

 Saluta- 



Aet. V. — Volcanic Activity in Stmday Island in 1814. 



By S. Percy Smith. 



[Eead hefoi-e the Auckland Institute, 5th August, 1895.] 



I HAVE been favoured by my friend W. D. Campbell, Esq., 

 F.G.S., with the following account, abstracted from the 

 Sydney Gazette, 17th September, 1814, of the first known 

 eruption on Sunday Island, of the Kermadec Group. In 

 vol. XX. of the " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," 

 page 333, I furnished some notes on the geological formation 

 of Sunday Island, and described an eruption in Denham Bay 

 which took place about 1872 ; but that described in the Sydney 

 Gazette is of much earlier date, though the place is the same. 

 This first eruption appears to have taken place on the 8th 

 March, 1814, and was of the same nature as the subsequent 

 one, an island of loose volcanic matter having been formed in 

 both cases. All signs of this island had disappeared on the 

 occasion of our visit in the " Stella," in 1887. The following 

 is the extract : — 



