A WELL-FILLED CABIN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2288, 23 November 1889, Page 2

A WELL-FILLED CABIN

Tho Rev. Mr Tolfor has been lecturing fn Oatiihlre, the Tur&naki " Herald" Bays, on jSbw Zealand. If tho rev. gentleman has been correoily repostod, tha "Herald" thlnka. be moat h».ve an exceeding lively imagination, la deaorlblng a thunderstorm Id Taranak?, he ibn« delivotrd himoelf: — "Ho w*tchod tho play of the lli-btnlng, tho flashes of which nearly bllndei ihi epjatafcoro for thj uiument, Then thorn oimu a fearful orucU, and they saw tho ball 'burnt a.iongat tha foreot trees tenr them to afcotna, and fling them about Id a.l directions. Soma of tho traea wera fully five oc six feet to dhmoter, He never onw or heard aoythlng bo awful bofore.'? An eqcully vivid ! desotltt on of the Maoris follonn that of tbe thunderstorm, bat the l lono (s changed to the cabin Of oue of the 03»ftt»l Bißumera. It appaara that Maortß irero the chief p.Hnongorfl. and wira present In large numboru, and, as Is their wont, were uot over psrUouiur. Tbe rev. lootaro^ sayo :—"l lay down, bat did not go to Bleep. Ptesaut-y I saw dark faces peering ia tha dooiwny, aud fouvteoD Olnorir, tho ahurtOdt of thtm oix feet three, glided m ami laid thennjolveß ou their ot),okf ou ihi fl)or of my oabln. Oar rencea will noto that tho oablto would me m a co Hli. feet by eight feet at tho meat, nud U mast, therefore, be clear to them that, to say nothing of -ha apaoa ocoaplad by the parson, the bauka and other sundries, the fourteen men, the smallest over aix feet three Inohen, would experieaoe no difficulty wh»tovor In finding plenty of eooomodatlon.