OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue XIII, 30 March 1895, Page 294

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

ST. CLAIR BEACH, DUNEDIN. ANEW view of this well-known suburb of Dunedin is given this week on our front page, numerou s requests having been made by persons unable to procure numbers of the paper in which former but different views have appeared. The picture now given is from a different point of sight than any we have seen, and gives a very admirable impression of the popular beach. The season at St. Clair is now, of course, drawing to a close, for the weather is already beginning to cool considerably. But on Sundays and holidays the St. Clair beach is as yet as crowded as ever. ON THE RIMUTAKAS. Everyone has heard of, and not a few of us have experienced, the hurricanes which rage almost perpetually on the Rimutakas. Everyone has heard of the train being blown off the line, and of the breakwind and extra rail added to prevent any further accident. Our pictures will therefore have a universal interest for New Zealanders and their friends. Our first photoengraving shows one of the breakwinds, which guard trains from the terrific gusts which sweep down the gorges. Siberia is the exact spot where the wind did, as before mentioned, derail a train some years ago. A more fitting name for this wild and desolate spot could not have been found. The entrance to the Rimutaka tunnel forms the subject of our second illustration, and in this is shown the centre rail before spoken of. Editorial thanks are due to Mr Thos. Pringle, of Wellington, for his excellent photo, from which our engravings are produced. SOME NORTHERN WATERFALL SCENERY. This week we are giving some new views of the extremely pretty Nihotapu and Huia Falls in the Waitakeri Ranges, whence, in . the distant future, a supply of pure water may be obtained for the city of Auckland. There is now a good road to the Falls, and visitors to the Northern City should not fail to drive to the Ranges, and add a glimpse of this beautiful water scenery to their remembrances of other picturesque places in the Auckland Province. LAKE TE ANAU. A fine full pige picture of Lake Te Anau appears in this issue. It is from the pen of Mr Ryan. A full description of Lake Te Anau appeared so recently in the Graphic that it is not worth while to repeat it on this occasion.