A PRETTY SPOT.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 10, Issue 678, 17 June 1887, Page 6

A PRETTY SPOT.

' : As' the way fare? journeys fttd&g ma Riverside road between ;' !! Q«re JlJSl 'Matatfra, 5 afcd skirts > ;i A rocky $luff which overhangs w th© titer, 'her will observe nestling among gteec tretia liflPli on the bank of the ; Otakaigma fettaAra a homestead,- the property df ; !ffr Donald* Eraser* which has chaptoa <#% picturesque nature to iSkr* Ne4Zealand ecenea of a sitmisr kfnd lay claim. The beauty of th« jfimifo consists in its enthe want of Mfotinkl regularity. The trtes aroiiotftrraifgea in mathematical liu»3, th* cotfel'ge-'jl mossgrown and without pro^Dfeibne "l» architectural beauty, ; the gardek-^b exuberant in naperfluoua ihrubb^r^, and yet th© whole at once catches Ilia arreats tha eye. The atream iii ft'oiif, winding as it does under thtr bakdt^H steep hill, as if lovingly loth to lt^av© its parent home and embark on th% turbid bosom of tile Mat&u^a, iis lrke% youth about' to make^ hie^firat $*SnfiS into the wdrl?i. Now eulleii atid «W» pondent > arid witfa- giboa&y h^iitfcMttS pausing and reflecting, i übw« animal with hope, rattling over ! the htohH wreathed in sparkling smiles aad tdtfl ing up its foam in the very ecstsicy :^! youthful vigor, until finally it oVewoiisrt all doubts, it makes its pluage/i'andili identity is lost for ever amid a thoflsftn^d other suoh. The cottage, - < wit!F*i6 thatched looi and sloping ifalis, migtft well become a Bcenein the- old worM rather than the new, where ttTerythitf£ is fresh from the hand of man. !i Suctt a cottage would befit a highland gM or a Swiss valley. -The owner, ststl hate and vigoroua, notwithetaadirij many grandchildren, described on tl« occasion on which we visited his ferni the chadgirig moods of the Mataarii It is essential that he should know ita humors, for he crosses it frequently oil his>ray to Gore, and oonid teli 1 as boir far it had changed its bed dariagi t&^ last : - few yea^s, and proudly n****ftig how a sturdy grandson eight yeari of age had last year crossed on foot. -;■'•■ :> >