A DARING EXPEIRENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 262, 15 April 1915, Page 5

A DARING EXPEIRENCE.

■fc PADDLING ACROSS WAIMANGU. Mr. Frank Musgrovo, manager of the Nellie Stewart Company, when speakir.g of the renewed activity of the Waimangii geyser in Wellington stated that he happened to be at Waimangu whew one of the Warbricks and Captain Slocum's mate on the Tilikum crossed the crater lake and took soundings. "Jt was not the Mr. Wurbrick who was afterwards killed there," said Mr. Musgrove, "but his brother, and lie never professed to like the job for one moment. In fact he told me that he had made liis will, and said that the other man did not realise the danger of the undertaking. They brought out a little boat for the work, and we all watched them from a distance. There was about an acre and a half of boiling water, and so furious was it that wo lost sight of tlicin when they were in the middle of the lake—they wore lost in the steam. They made soundings as they slowly crossed, and I remember that the greatest depth they got was 46 feet. When they <;ot back to the shore or bank the bottom of the boat was too hot to touch, and wonder was expressed that it did not open out under them. This occurred whin we were playing at Rotorua with Mr. Wm. Hawtrey's 'Message from Mars' Company about twelve years ago."