THROUGH OTHER EYES

Evening Star, Issue 18374, 7 September 1923, Page 10

THROUGH OTHER EYES

AMERICAN JOURNALIST IN NEW ( ZEALAND. I AL- Mark Forrest, the American journalist, has returned to .Milwaukee from a q visit to New Zealand, and has been giving some of his impressions to the folk of that city. “The .Maoris of New Zealand,” snvo ’j Air Forrest, “ delight, in hideous facia! | contortions, and teach children to prac- ' tiee slicking out their tongues to an enormous extent; it is supposed to bo terrilyi- ing to tho enemy. i- ‘‘Of all the natural sights, the glow- |- worm cave at Wait onto, New Zealand, in t - t. pressed mo tho nijfu-. As we entered the cavo we approached what is known as the j cathedral, a great hollow in the. cavern, i and hero the lanterns were left, behind t and the guide warned us not to make the •, slightest sound. J “ Tho guide conducted us down a High! ■. of stairs which led to an underground river. Hero tho whole of tho ceiling ami j the stalactite was entirely covered with ! glow worms, which seemed to stretch 0 away to an enormous distance. But if the slightest sound was made, as a knock on i’ tho wall or against the side of tho boat, ’ all tho glow worms immediately became black. n “In the course of half an hour they (, again began shining, and at times the 0 glow was so bright that one could read e bv it. It was one of the most remark o able sights I ever saw. There, was the , impression of going through a forest, as . these stalactites appeared like tho branches and trunks of trees in the gloom.” s The paper from which the above report i- is taken adds that Air Forrest took away :- with him many curios ami photographs, n “On tho beach at New Plynyuth,” it u says, “ho scraped up two bottles of pure ironsand, which requires no smelting—as there is no.earth mixed with it. This d deposit is being utilised by tho islanders.” ; It will be news to tho experimenters s hero (says the Wellington ‘ Dominion ’) p b learn that Taranaki ironsand needs no s smelting, and at tho same time is “ being k utilised by the islanders.” Neither statement is correct, though hopes aro still en tertained that good pigirou may bo made out of tho deposits, a