KAIKOURA (MARLBOROUGH). CLINICAL EXPERIENCES

Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 45

KAIKOURA (MARLBOROUGH).

CLINICAL EXPERIENCES

August 10. — Last week came in fine, but Mon* day evening brought light, warm rain. Tha weather was broken until Friday noon, -when a cutting southerly bla3t brought a heavy falL of hail. Friday night's frost was the keenest we have had this winter. Saturday was warm an.l bright, but yet another blizzard sheeted the hills and howled heavily across the flats last night. The wind is slowly dropping to« day and the heavy sea subsiding. Coronation.— The Coronation festivities l<pssed off well and plensantly, but suburban people who stayed for the concert had a rather vi.pleasant trip home through the sleety wind. Valedictory.— Dr Gale has left for England with his mother, who was visiting him here, and is shortly to be followed by Mrs Gale and his little girls.

August 11. — Twelve miles • west from Kaikoura, looking from the front door here northward, one sees the snow-clad range climbing away to the north-eastward, where rugged Whakan shuts out further prospect. Bold and isolated Mount Fyffe is before us, barren to the north, darkly-wooded to ths south. Far murmurous among the ferny and tussocky hilla the Kahoutera comes away from tho nor'-west, rising night the Clarence Valley, falling through a narrow, gloomy gorge, bordered by manuka and spreading shingle. Where it falls it is joined by the Gr-enburu, Lynton, Little Lyaton, and Cribb Creek, and so sweeps castwprd round Bulleu's hills and southward to tho sea. It is some what lonely out here. The settlers, Messrsr Payn«, Palmer, M'Gtegor, and Bayly, dwell along the stream about r mile from each other, and each about a mile from the south coach road. The grand old native fragrance is here, and the spirit of freedom. Manuka and takenau, fern and tussock — these in the sunshine, or after .rain, possess that charm wLioh can never, be put into words. One feels it as the rivei*murmur swells and falls-, as the breeze whispers and dies. The gullies behind are the haunts of goats and pigs. It is grand to climb up the spurs and mark tho valley widen And lengthen below. How many shingle-beds L How many serpent-Btreamsl And when even- 1 ing sinks on the lonely world how glorious are tho everlasting stars. And if one feels inclined to go visiting he may tuck his trousers up to hiß knees, wade avow-cold -waters ztnd wander under rugged bluffs.

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