MOUNTAIN ECHOES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 January 1926, Page 6

MOUNTAIN ECHOES.

NEWS AND NOTES OF EG MONT. (By “Snowline.”) Tiie weather has been perfect for the past week. To-day, January 12, is the first rainy day since tiie New x ear. Visitors to Dawson Falls are unselfishly saving that the farmers will welcome'the rain. and are consoling themselves with bridge and music indoors. Tim Jess frivolous find that a book, an armchair, and a tire .form a delightful and satisfying combination in wet weather. Several concerts have been held in the old house, ami many hours charmed away with song, music and elocutionarv items, and we lia\ c had the pleasure of hearing many talented performers, chief among them being iliss Glennie, S.R.A.M., and -Miss Wilby, both of England, Miss Jean Effingham (Dannevirkc),. Miss Fay Baffin (Christchurch), Miss A. Kelly (England), Mr. Keesing (of Wellington)” while Mrs. Murphy is always generous with her beautiful and muchappreciated voice. Saturday saw a large influx of week enders and accommodation was taxed to provide for them. The number of Sunday visitors was large and enthusiastic, as the day was beautiful and the mountain more alluring than ever with wonderful shifting cloud effects. . Numbers of touring cars containing Auckland, Wellington and Australian visitors frequently run up to Dawson Fulls for a few hours to obtain a closer glimpse of our mountain. Members ol the Gappy Ricks Company spent a few happy hours here on Sunday. A few visitors who love nocturnal rumbles had the privilege last evening of witnessing an electrical disturbance in the eastern sky. Seated above Dawson Falls watching tin* gleaming torrent pour ceaselessly over the bush-clad cliffs into the deep ravine, the first few stars gemming the deep blue of the sky,- the scene was indcseribably peaceful until a growl of thunder was faintly heard. Then a dark cloud, which had been hovering over towards the eastern horizon, was suddenly torn and rent by jagged forked lightning, which appeared like darting, writhing snakes of light and menace. These occurred at intervals of a few minutes, the reflected flashes illuminating the whole mountain side and surroundings, which in its peaceful starlit beauty was in striking contrast to the evidently furious storm raging some miles away. In less than an hour all was over, and in the morning the sun had chased all clouds away.