THE OKOROIRE SPRINGS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1830, 2 May 1888, Page 3

THE OKOROIRE SPRINGS.

The maguificlent medioal thermal springs at Ohorolre, near Oxford, the fame of which has reached far and wide, will, we are glad to learn, Bhortly be opened up and fitted for the reooptlon of invalids and tourists. The land on which they are situated (about 70 acres) was purchased from tho natives Borne time ago, Bnd tho proprietor, Mr A. Iwa b, formerly of Cambridge and Oxford, Intends to erect suitable buildings and bath houses forthwith.' The jprlnga are generally acknowledged to be the equal of any m the colony, and many claim for them great superiority over those at Te Aroha. In variety of temperature, from tepid to boiling, and m volume they certainly excel thoae named, while the fact that I they are a few yards from the Walpou River, which here plunging through a moßt pfotureeque gorge, diving under a natural bridge aud forming a oateraot Is an additional attraction of great value; tbe visitor being enabled to jump out of the hot spring Into the cool pelluold waters of the river. At the present time, the springs are regularly vUited every Sunday by the aettlers of the neighborhood to the number of 60 or 60, and many wonderful cures are related. It la Mr Isaio'a intention to erect a oommodloua hotel with atableß and every convenience, so that visitors to the interior may stay at the springs instead of at Oxford. He will arrange for a bus to meet the train at Okoroire station, and conneot with the hotel, the coaches for Rotorua leaving the latter place, which Is some three miles nearer Obinemutu than Oxford. There la also a good road from the springs to Te Aroha, so tbat Okoroire can be made a centre for tourists.— -("New Zaaland Herald.")