AMERICAN'S IMPRESSIONS

Otaki Mail, 24 September 1923, Page 4

AMERICAN'S IMPRESSIONS

• l .JUV.iiN.VI.IbX u:> -N Jitt ZJJALAN iJ. * 1 "j it 'Jit SA-N iJ ,\ M iiijL iS'O Silta-Ti-NG." M ■ M'nii; j-Vjr;-' .v, tin American i .ummuua, hm icimmcd u> iliiwauke. ■ iron a visit iu Nc.v Zee lend, and Las ! u; giving soiae oi Lis impressions , i so lire luik oi that oily, i -Tlie Maoris o- Xcvi Zealand," y Mr Koj-rt'st, "delight, iu hideous i facial contentions, and teach children ; to practice sticking out fueir tongues i to an enormous extent; it is supposed j j to be- tei-iilyics to tin. ononis. j * ••<_»£ all the natural sights, the alow ; . ; worm cave at Wait .into, Sovf Z&u----t 1 land, impressed mo tire most. Mr we * ! entered tire cave we approached what 1 is known as the cathedral, a air eat hollow in the cavern. and here th*.: i lanterns were left behind and tire ** ■ guide. warned us not to make the . I slightest sound. ! “The guide conducted us down a \ flight oi stairs which led to an underground rarer, iiere trie whole oi tile ceiling and tire stalactite was entirely covered with glow worms, which seemed to stretch uv«uy to an enor--5 mous distance, rial ii the slightest s sound was made_ as a. knock oil the t wall or auginsi the side oi the boat, ail the glow worms ianxtodkueiy Ijocanie black. "In the course oi half an hour they again began shining, arm at times the , glow was so bright that one could | read by it. it was one oi' the most I remarkable sights I ever saw. There ' was the impression oi going through i a forest as these stalacites appeared i like tlie branches and trunks of trees j j. j in the gloom.” The paper from which the above * ' report is taken adds that ii. Forrest j took av.uy wit!:.'him many curios and ’ ' photograpn "or ,ku beach at New i Pl.vino :h. it .t ys, "ir; scraped up ■ , , two bo;Lit., i- . .. i;on.-.and, which i ' * requires no smelling—as liierc is no j earlL mixed v.uth it. Fids deposit is j £ j It will bu i;ew.- to the nlers > I being nidi■-■■.; l.v the isk.udero.” ! lie-rc to ioa.'i: that rranaki iron sand * needs no rnu-jnng, and . • ;ke same time "being uti::s:d by the islanders.'' Neither statement is correct, though' hopes are still enter- , mined that good pig iron may be | made out . the deposits. I ; . ' . 5 _