AN INTERESTING TRIP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 8

AN INTERESTING TRIP.

. ' VISIT• TO'THE MORNIA-HOT SPRINGS, ' MAGNIFICENT 'SCENERY.' ' ' • „„ (FROM : OUJI/SrEOIAIj i CORBESPOKbENT.) " i" :-,';...ChVistchiirehif^4: - A ilparty." ; \ ,bj ■ nmkingV;t'rip ( 1 thp'jnortli;. of i Th'e ?? springs'.'are i.kno^n^^jeciaily; on ithis ?•" side- <of the • range, ■; easily '®. reachod from Recfton..; '."v; The pafty lbft Hanmer ;bn;Christmaß'Eto, - and . went via, St.' James's. Station to Ada g : Station;.which' lafe^^^e^wr'-iieaS-Quarters.-,; travelled.by P 0 : ney l was by bridle track. ■ ■ ayn 'Taking ono. of tho station.'handsto act-as guide, they started on what proved to bo ® a rattyer rouglntrip." ;Of, track' thoro-were ip only, -traces. met ..with , hero 'there. ■ The d jpack i horse slipped- whilst ascending tho: it abrupt side of a-small ;iaVine,':afid turned a L j., couple ,of somersaults beforo his' downward - progress was stopped ■by a' stump.: ..Sonic . . parts jof the •routo;<were..so. steep: that the travellers-had to dismount and ascend like j] monkeys by their hands aiid.- feet,, though i the, station horses; being'used to such rough , 0 - countij, negotiated it with less difficulty. • ■t In Cannibal Gorge, they: met with.a shingle o „JP completely, blocked, the - trackiv With .tjief aid of sticks they. Managed i.tomtikd a passage: over which tho horses were ablo to d ®\ 'Furthers on tlioycame-.toa. place where |. the road had been washed away, and hero _ they had to build up tho track so that they q could pass over. '. ->'■' ■; r . Theyduly arrived at 1 the: Hot SpringsXwet d and'tired,, and.'lost'no time; ihVmaking;tliemj selves .comfortable m tho huts provided for u 'visitors by tho Inangahu.v County Council: t .They,' found two' gentlonVcn'.' , wJib .had-fconie q ;from Reeftori. One ' provedv to',' bo' brio of a those ...who 'had made the ', track to';: .'the s springs.;'• He narrated that,- as! a .boy/of six _ ho liad guided the first pf the gold, diggers s who used th.o .Cannibal Gorge route 'to. the e .West;. Coast -rushes,:,arid;: after.:seeing: theni' „ :through tho'gorge, returned.by.himself.;, . ; As' a' tourist resort, - tho party formed a, . very high opinion of the route traversed, and! D expressed' the- opinion that ;for .magnificent 0 scenery Cannibal; ! Gorge' excols either tho . Otira Gorge or, thq Manawatu'Gorge; If. the s scenic'beauty, of the known r .'hey thought' that very; many-; would .visit the . Springs. • v : ■:/ ■' -' The return journey/id, Ada. Station was a'c- , oomphshed:' under -..more" ;:pl,easaiitfciroum'- . stances. Prom Ada, ; Statioh: they, made seve- . ral excursions' toVplace's interest'. 'In tho i- vi P»iity of Lake .Tennyson'they, came on the v hut.of a,.rabbiter who of .living on'jfche >. highest: altitude.;., in ',-■ the /; ./3)pminio,n,;. some ' 4200 ft. . above: sea ..level j ; but-according .to tlie 1 : statements .of- suryeyorsl /hd' holds, the -record r onl s\ by.. about, 2ft., as ; th'e.-,Tarndale jhoqi'd- , stead :is -.not i much 'lo.wer. 'than vthe.'rabbiter's t. lonely, hirt ' 4.,; . 1 • The-party... were-greatlyunterestod. in-tho . Springs, which are slowly; building- up a re- , plica of Uho onc-timovwondrousvjWhito .'and . ■■ ijink .Terraces that: were, so groaf' an ■ attrac- ! tion of. Lake, Rotomahanavprior .to'the' erupj» . tion .of Tarawora .in .1886.'',