A Trip into the Bush.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6094, 10 March 1891, Page 3

A Trip into the Bush.

[BY OUB BEKCIAL EBPOBTEB. |

It was what the poet would term a glowing-morn," its beauty one of George Eliot's word*, '■\ Vllt . t glad world this looks !" The we*tr,e ... every respect suited the ocoamon. By the «' occasion " I mean a trip we had into the bush We had learned that there was somothino- or another on at Woodv.lle, and IZ at Palmerston. But what the fusa wa* aU about I didn't exactly care beyond the fact that I knew I had a short holiday, and «ntT as far as the train would take me. TKe Napier railway station wa, astir early, Id the bustle and excitement would have done creto o a terminus of far larger predone or There ar e people who trouble rrXes?yTri Ug in/wifh all kinds of baseage on an excursion tram But a good took, a plentiful supply of the weed, fnd a comfortable seat, in all one rcquiro foVa ehort journey like this. «onie Hmefor the good folk of Napier to get Sea in their Beats yenterday. At length drome's "Three Men in a Boat," StheiradvLtures .ere nothing to those of

" BIX MEN IN A EMLWAY CA.REIAOE."

t t ma irißtsav a word or t*o about my teX whom I had ample £c "study from a peep now and again from a very entertaining book ''Idle TtoMhte by an Idle Fellow." If they Wβ not altogether agreeable they had Tuv amount to say. Two were , °™ cy f T"' STnterested ii Carbine, and the fa, c> w v. , tnn\ so they saw, to run y i Wα Mm that "Silence is golden," ■ bS .tb«, r a= up for 'aSlwwere being taken far into IPS d,,t,u,..00. LT;''™™ it m , aa me think 'Th.tS. » hom.ln th, bush, ml »o, ideas as "SSSan'tworth living.. He was, " , f portion of a reading the *ay robab ly torn ofi newspaper that bad Deen p j c , b y some oae in a * M1 »- b i owin g the h« was enjoying toe pipe, whUe cool tobacco «}? n *| n r JX7sie adver.iseWrC :f B CWenthatlSht be interesting ments. isut eve on Now to some However i .g tion| wher e for Syatontion is diverted by a l-UNN? LIlTIi« MAN

S^ F £ a °wa!i%i-, beautified on either side by

LTJXTTBIiNT SCKNKEY. j°rf no more But then the train whirls be nlh very fwtly, and the journey is you thro«m h beaideßi golnff no t so tedio^ 8 is a nt „ri through the turn. the long fOT - ffla ?t y h the agonists from Wellingtrainwiththees a other stat i onS along ton, Palmeraton is reached, *** ** Hosfc WllßOn , B ani. "we e '* , hete we obtain a good OccaSental Hotel, w»e f rom the fcinohewi. there. He fcaetelry, and * ££ a „ « occasion," in fl»t tine wasa Qne of theg - x *" hea "hMS » bob ?" " *». «»» * h » sotio vovc, . vi£ T o i,nny Toole wouldn't occasion, a"- Napier you cave paid "» „ i: hera l when out for a fea are A EuncH F wehad a couple of toUday. Alter fa perogr inaUoaß , to ura at our aisposa Hor 7 h 7 six^n , indlell iotVe" Wβ are Seven,' ""WE ABE TWO. ; „. f ,, r as we—l'm now speakPalnteiewn, see, is a ing of the »»«"°g Dleuty of country thriving P la^ b f',.<i to*'i> ahead. But as arouud it, and t> „ h . Fl . o;l de intend to do the same <» ~ pQr . it ►' little ]' ln Ttn immiee marquee, »nd solid erected at. * being dispensed with at rrfreebmet-te J«^ al ° Kobort ." And it ■. the cost of & y Thia was a i so for the was patronised, £•» • folk x nolice d ••occasion. , o = rt iki to tliafc there pajtioutariy do sjnok ed Square, tor they sq wou denugly rSt^KX-laVcaUthe * * *< MiDDIWG CROW).' A across several Napier people We dropped . acr ° SS irlotin the inland town, who had oaat n> l w ■ t0 be amonK ana frota tli".u-a C co« wewurM those happy thp moni ing there had herebelo*.' n . TwoMinlwtere "been great Va ™£c>- idL by the mucho h«Crown t f acUxDP n J g> come abused B.ailway wm in tfae open . from Uke of <;ourß6) pro . ing of the toe. lil ,^ c Min i st er for Eduoevided with lunch. l ™£ .< hurried " luncheon, buckling 'A the belt O f the last inland. He was not which would gird this atanother iunch frightened at Aa - and they were awaited then, at Woo bo eat determined to eat A them x an d drink quite believe it. full Btora ach way after then it was no is a great aid to taiK. Minister for wonder that the y°^"^ ntly on the at•JSdnoation dilated It ; 8 ■tractions and of the too fijU , oonfeJed. to the 3U B tice as at their disposal by .delectable thmg»pwceu palmeraton we rthe WeedTiUe folk. thft , md the ieard many g»V^ t tlle line would now £:uportb?wfolnlle trade. How PAXMBB3TON WOTOD PEOSPKR - ■ r,+ nf Woodville. "We heard t0 tttf hotel-keepere ware aad that 1 *c \ Voo^3 d de p art from them, and now ; b^S 3 woll «hut up chop. it wb.3 t-aid they^?f e^eßEed f or the keeper Other resets weraexp Wo of the halt- way coach nevei . j, agse a and r , panta having a there without u» »" end and 80 "wet." Everyt"«g palraeri . ton We did our short »jo » had metj to wished to the and ra(iUmed .eachatidallafairgooa y , tbtough th(} our return journey aB the nrat a creation "where o«-y Tf)m is, bat man is * Uβ bgaut^ ...on, «M, » p ;;^ ai "

poetical. The sun was just sinking behind some hills ri'id 3asting a lurid reflection upi.m the tail bush trues towering their heights above ; while the lonaly settler's cot, with the chimney smoking merrily, gave the spot an appearauoe of peace on this part of the earth at least. But a truce to all this "stuff" The remaining part of the home journey was uninteresting , , for •the darkness precluded all further sightseeing. It was eleven o'clock before the train arrived at the Napier station, and thus ended a trip which was thoroughly' enjoyed by all the excursionists who left ia the morning.