WATERFALL ON MOUNT EGMONT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1019, 7 January 1911, Page 4

WATERFALL ON MOUNT EGMONT.

A RECENT DISCOVERY. In view of tlie large amount of ex« ploration. wliicli lias been earned oil round Mount- Egmont it seems, a bold thing for. anybody to say that he liasdiscovered something on the mountain fr'hich,.up to the present, has remained hidden to tho many eager eyes which •have from time, to time searched the mountain thoroughly in quest of something out of the ordinary iiijtho way of scenery. But- (says the Stratford "Post") Mr. G. Moran, lately engaged with -Mr. Cliristensen in shifting the Mountain House, claims to have come upon a waterfall which has greater beauty than, even the famous DawsonY' Falls. On New Year's,: Day Messrs.Mown and Christensen were out on-the .mountain,: when they struck the Manganui River, and saw a remarkable series of waterfalls. The main fall, says Mr. Moran, is about seventy feet high,' and there are two smallep ones. Above tho big fall towers an almost perpendicular wall of rock about sixteen hundred feet high, forming a fine background. At present there is very little water coming over tho Dawson's Falls, but over tho newly-discovered fall the full body of tho Manganui River passes. On the waters of the river were seen numbers of mountain duck, which were so tamo that they ' could almost be stroked. The falls can be reached from the Mountain House in about an hour and a half,' and Mr. Christensen has already begun to out a track through. Steps' havo- been taken to bring the falls under tho notice of tho Tourist Department. , i Interviewed on the. subject-, Mr. W. P. ICirkwood said that far 'its he could make out from the' description, given, t-bo falls were in reality -not a now discovery, but yere the t Curtis Falls, the existence of which Jias beea known for a good many years. Not a great many people have seen the Curtis Falls, and as they are almost inaccessible tho members of the Mountain Houso Committee should visit the place as early as possible to exactly determine tho value of the find and to decide what, if anything, should be dono to improvo access.