ENDEAVOUR INLET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 10

ENDEAVOUR INLET.

;Sir,—l was' delighted to sco your able article on the above in;. ■ to-day's Dominion. ■It has beon a long-looked-for pleasure to find something in . print, about the splendid pleasure ground sb : close to Wellington. '_ As a constant visitor to; Endeavour Inlet since 1898, I can endorso to tho full everything stated by you. Hero we have on tho one hand .a mountain 2700 ft. vhigh, and on the other a mountain 3951 ft. high,; both wooded to the water's .edge.; An ample accommodation house'exists 'also at the foot of the' higher, mountain, while as to sport we have'the word; of the genial proprietor himself that ho will "guarantee: you a. pig within three ; hours from tho back of his house.'' This is an outside margin. ' '' '' TJp tho valley there are many places of interest besides the unparalleled view obtainable from tho top of the old tram lino (a height, of 1700 ft.). \ In' a littlo 'cottage, tso last of the old !miners.'; huts, ■ and surrounded by a pretty orchard; we have the home of a New Zealand novelist, whoso, book, "Horfense," has not; long been published.; This slono is ovidonco of Arcadia.Thero is also 'a.',most .beautiful'waterfall; weir worth seeing, together ; with the"6it©of the.: nqw.'' abandoned mined." Trips ,m T bo'mad«.'-ilw'siinuiner--ablo places 'Of;interest —East Bay .for shooting 1 and' fishing, Ship; Cove,' Jackson's Head, and ,"other delightful : places, a. full description of which can;be found in Captain Cook's Voyages, in : almost 1 the,-identical ''state, they are in at the present day. .

. ' The . casual tripper from "Wellington' to Picton for day; fotins' .no "idea of ■ the. splendid area,'_ 'almost; unexplored, which awaits! him a little further afield..'To> do. it full justice it should bo known as "Marvellous .Marlborough."—l am, etc., CAPTAIN COOKER. April 21, 1909. . ;