NEW ZEALAND' SCENERY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1094, 5 April 1911, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND' SCENERY.

AMERICAN VISITORS ENTHUSIAS TIC. Tho American tourists who arrived from tho West Coast last week • ara delighted with tho scenery they havo witnessed in the south. "It was simply delightful at Qucenstown," said Sir. Win. 11. Fisher, of Now York, "to sit out in the clear exhilarating air under the Remarkables, and observe (lie play of light and.shadows on tlie lake. Some of our party did tho trip from To Anau to Milford Sound, and they camo back quite excited and enthusiastic over what they had seen. I did not feci equal to the long walk, and therefore missed much. Lake Maiiapouri—well, 1 consider it tho most beautiful lr.kc in the world. It is splendid, indeed it is. Auother great pleasure was our visit to Mount Cook. Wo reached there in the evening—it was moonlight, and there was Mount Cook, cold, impassive, and imperially grand in the soft while light. It was cold—we were nearly frostbitten—but we could not go indoors. Your Mount/ Cook is wonderful—it's the best thing you havo got." "Wo found the Hermitage quite comfortable—a little primitive perhaps, hut the place was clean end the food good. They have already got in the foundations for an extension of the building. This is being built in such a position tliat a view of Mount Cook will be obtainable from the windows, which is not the case at present." Mr. Fisher says that with the photographs he has taken and those that have been presented to him by tho Tourist Donartincnt he intends giving, exhibitions "(limelight! on his return to Xew York and probably in other towns in the United States.