NEW WAITOMO CAVE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1053, 16 February 1911, Page 3

NEW WAITOMO CAVE.

(By Telceraph.-Spcclal Correspondent.! • Auckland, February 15. Referring to tho now cavo at Wnitomo, opened by tho Hon. T. Mackenzio yesterday, the "Star's" special correspondent says that it combines most of the beauties of those at present known, and has in addition somo others peculiar to itself. This is how it came to bo discovered. A genial Maori named Araniii was out ono day.*; replenishing u tho' family larder with'fresh pork, wh'en'L'ho 'suddenly cair.o on an oponmg»in tho 6tcep hillside, where bis grunting quarry led him. Overcoming the natural Native aversion to things dark and unknown, Aranui struggled through the narrow pnth. His adventure is really amusing when you hear him tell it himself. As ho got in ho lit a match, which, of course, went out, , partly , throush agitation on the part of tho holder, nnd partly owing to bad nir. Tho glimpse ho had in tho moifiont of illumination was almost, too much for him. "By korry!" eays the author of the' incident, "I think I see to taipo." When ho £ot more light on tho subject, Aranui discovered that tho fearsome object which had set his heart benting was ono of the weird forms in which limostono delights, the.iinaire being rendered moro. Satanic by tho fitful' nnd momentary 'glare "of his match. Aranui goes on to explain how he- imparted tho news of his discovery to tho "mishus," who told it to n friend. The news 3uickly spread, nnd Aranui awoke one ay to find himself famous