At a meeting of the Auckland Institute, held recently, a paper by Captain Corbett was read, giving an account of a remarkable phenomenon which he had witnessed near Lake Taupo on the 3rd of January last. He was sleeping in a whare, when about half-past eleven afc night he heard a rushing noise. Going oufc from the whare he observed a geyser of hot spring throw up a column of steam nearly to the height of two hundred feet, a dark cloud being on the opposite horizon. The moon was shining, ahd a beautiful lunar rainbow of a pale straw color was visible between the geyser and the cloud. In California every man who plants a shade tree is entitled to receive one dollar while at Sebastapol, a small mining town in Victoria, the Town Couucil offer to plant trees and enclose them in front of residences for the moderate sum of 20$.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 210, 7 September 1869, Page 2
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