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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 517, 11 October 1890, Page 3

Launches leave the wharf at a and 7 this evening for the Te Anau,

The schooner Opotiki was brought up to the wharf yesterday afternoon, The bathing season has now fairly set in. And large crowds will soon be frequenting the beach early and late. Mr O’Connor’s report on the harbor works |a expsoted next week. We understand that tbs cement will not be disposed of as at first proposed, so that ths report promises to be of a favorable nature.

The Union Company’s steamer Australia Mme into the bay at 10 o’clock last night, from Auckland via coast ports. The 'first launch goes off at 630 this morning, and tba outward passengers leave the wharf at 8008,

A Taupo resident reports that there have lately been heavy discharges of steam from Ruapehu, On one occasion during the put winter he noticed Ruapehu emitting a large tdlume of steam, which mostly fell at the base of the mountain, covering that part and the adjacent plain with a heavy mantle of Snow. This was Oh a fine but very cold day, and the phenomenon wu somewhat retnark-