TAUPO.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 188, 8 July 1896, Page 2

TAUPO.

[FROM OUIt OW.V COltßlisroXDEN'T

The rabbit inspector paid us a visit last week and reports that the rod.eptsliftvo fomid their way into the district. To provo it he' shot a couple and guve them to a resident.It is to be hoped they will not over-run the district as'they lVave in mauy other places. The shooting season is now over. T-.vo separate local parties went out for a week each. The first party hud but ihdiffereit luck ducks being their principal bag The other party were storm - bound ou tin: western side of the lake and in the evening created » bit of a panic by firing off their guns in nr. der to pet a boatman to put them acro.«. Many thought a first-class shipwreck was in progress.it lias'been tiotieed recently that the like will occasionally fall and rise somewli»t quickly which iij suppo-ed to be duo' to son e Volcanic riiOvement in the centre of T.iuto' Moana. The wintry feather seems to have set in in earnest, r.s Tauharu had a white cup a: the end of the week arid on Sunday the Kaimanawa were a pretty sight in the Lu' -bt sunlight.

From Tokafiiito we hoar whispers of Gold prospectors doiiig fairly well, and that tliosof the Tarawera locality have found a ra-i somewhere in the' Kaimanawas. It would lie a thing, for the whole district it these "fossickers" were thoroughly sui-ce.-*-ful. Prcppecrthg lias also been iroin<? oa for soihe time on the Westeiui side of the lake,: as the analysis" already published will show, and where tfiero are "'traces'' we may hope for something more tangible. With a goldffeid on one hand and tlm hot mineral waters and phenomena on the other, crowned with a fine bracing climate we miirlit well hope for brighter days commercially for Tapuwaeharuru, and that many footstepmay be heard therein. When the analysis' is made of the Rotorus mineral water could not those of Taupo t: treated. Those intererested would readily provide samples and' send them to any analyst who may ba dboseti. Stirely tiio imports,iee of this damiot be too highly thmiglit of, and now that the matter has been befors Parliament "our Member" svould do well to stir himself. Taupo, July, G,-1 SOS.