WALKS ABOUT CHRIST-ChURCH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2203, 21 May 1896, Page 50

WALKS ABOUT CHRISTChURCH.

By Edith Seaklb Geossmanh. Our Oity of the Plains cannot be said to present the same attractions to a pedestrian aB its rival Dunedin ; still, residents who are really bent on making excursions can always find places for rambling about in, One would hardly be so unenterprising as to roam only among the leafy lanes and roads upon the flat, beautiful as they are in late autumn with the last yellow leaves just trembling in the breeze, and with gleams of chill grey stream and creek between banks of grass now in its richest and deepest green. A breath of Bpring comes " untimely " just before winter sets in ; here and there in the gardens is a yellow piimroEe, a crocus, a solitary anemone, even a belated rose — rarer and more prized than the flowers of spring; and on the gorse hedges comes a sprinkling of golden bloom. These suburban roads are like paths through endless stately parks and gardens ; wandering through the bsautiful pleasure grounds the reflection naturally ri^es : what a loss it would be to the public if they were all replaced by small cottfges and the Socialists' ideal trim patches of ground ! But even an endless park is not sufficiently varied to satisfy a lover of the pictures que. Unfortunately to get any sore of view we must go a considerable distance through the town, and it must be confessed Christchurch is a remarkably uninteresting town. It has really scarcely one feature out of the common. Tuere are good substantial commonplace buildings, but except for the Cathedral there is not one that gives a touch