THE GOVERNORS TRIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 72, 26 March 1891, Page 9

THE GOVERNORS TRIP.

RETURN TO AUCKLAND.

His Excellency tiie Governor and party returned from their visit to the Uiewera country via Rotorua by the 2.30 train this afternoon, tho party comprising Lady Onslow, Admiral Lord Charles Scott and Lady Charles Scott, Miss Gardiner, Capt. Guthrie, A.D.C., Lieut. Fitzgerald, Mr Walrond, Lord Ancrim, Mr Fuller, the Hon. A. J. Cadman, Mr A. T. Bato (Secretary to the Native Minister), Mr Lewis (Under-Secretary for Native Affairs), and the press representatives. After leaving Rotorua yesterday morning bhe party proceeded by coach and on horseback to Okoroire, arriving there Boon aftor 4 p.m., after a somewhat tedious journey, the road being very heavy, owing to recent rains. The arrival of Governor and party at Okoroire filled up available accommodation, and the list of visitors assumed very large proportion*. The baths, which are in splendid condition, were freely patronised, and early this morning the whole party resumed their return trip to Auckland by train. The railway journey was an uneventful one, and the Auckland station was reached at 2.30 p.m.

The trip on the whole has not been an eventful one, and the party have undoubtedly been highly favoured in the matter ot weather. There has not, during the whole summer, been a more beautiful fortnight than tho one occupied by tha journey. Accidents on the trip have been few. There werea large percentage of shortsighted persons in tho party, and all these lost their glasses either in the bush or the rivers, where some very difficult situations had to be negotiated. Mr Lewis had two very narrow escapes of nasty horse accidents. At Ruato he mounted an untried horse, equipped with spurs. The horse not being accustomed to them, reared and threw him. He was, however, unhurt, tha horse being caught by the Maoris almost immediately. On another occasion he escaped a disagreeable "cropper." His saddle girth broke going up a steep embankment from a creek, and ib was only by great good luck thab he escaped a very nasty fall. Mr Bate, the secretary to Mr Cadman, was less fortunate. His horse bolted, going through the Tarawera Plains, and parsing on, ho was swept off the saddle, but escaped withoub injury. On the way from the Orporau station to Ruatoki he gob another fall. The girths of his saddle became loosened and the saddle slipped round. The horse was going at a racing gallop at the time and Mr Bate was thrown heavily into a ditch. To everyone's surprise there were no bones broken, and naturally he was a good deal shaken. The only other incident which might be doscribed as a mishap, was the escape of the horse ridden by Captain Guthrie, A.D.C., while crossing the river before reaching Matutu. His Excellency the Govornor is very much pleased with his trip, and both he and Lady Onslow have expressed their recognition of the complete arrangements made for their comfort and entertainment during their stay at Whakarcwarewa.