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(Voir Seance du 15 Novembre 1886, page 7) 



Tarawera 



Taper read at the last vieeting of the Royal Society 

 of Arts and Sciences. 



The Mail Steamer which reached this Port on the 

 15th of September brought us the news of the eruption 

 of the volcanic mountain " Tarawera " in New Zealand 

 which occurred on the 9th of June last. 



The appalling narrative as recorded in the Ilhis- 

 trated London Neios and herewith transcribed in part^ 

 shews how terrific the opening of the extinct crater must 

 have been, a catastrophe unprecedented in magnitude 

 and terror in the memory of the New Zealander. 



By the news that have reached us from different 



