A DARING EXPERIENCE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2435, 14 April 1915, Page 7

A DARING EXPERIENCE

PADDLING ACROSS WAIMANGU.

Mr. Fraiik Muegrove, manager of the Nellie Stewart Company, when speaking of the renowed activity of the Waimangu geyser last evening, 6tated that he happened to be at Wairuangu when one of the Warbricks and Captain Slocum's mate on the Tilikum crossed the crater lake and took soundings. "It was not .the Mr. Warbrickwho was afterwards killed there," said Sir. Musgrove, "but a brother, and he never professed to like the job for one moment. In fact he told me that he had made his will, and said that the other man did not realise the danger of the undertaking. They brought out a little boat v for the work, and we all watihed them from a distance. There was about an acre and a half of boiling water, and 60 furious was it that we lost signt of them when they were in the middle of the lake—they were lost in the steam. They made soundings as they slowly crossed, and I remember that the greateat depth they got was 46 feet. When they got back to the shore or bank the bottom of the boat was too hot to toiicTi, and wonder was expressed that it did not open out under them. This occurred when we were playing at Rotorua with Mr. Wm. Hawtrey's 'Message from liars' Company about twelve yeare ago."