The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-20

tlty mlles-HO that there was substance
for sheep or cattle. The grass wus
covered with mud. One hundred and
five Maoris we're buried in tho mud and
seven whites, among them Il young
English tourist Ills friends in England
sent out a monument to be erected to
his memory, and it was some time before
solid ground could be found to stand 1t
OF. Mr.. Harry Cookson, IL 4 Canadian
by birth and coachman from ltotaund
to Lake Taupo, who drove mo one day
50 miles, entertained mo in describing
the awful scenes and the terrible roar
ing sound and shaking OF the earth.
Tho black smoke would rise Il hundred
feet or more In vast volume and then n
bright flash OF fire would illuminc the
night. ct was one o'clock in tho morn
ing when interruption took place. Ashes
fell on incomingships Wmilcs out ut sea.
The horscs in the stables became fran
tic and tho sweat poured OIL OF them,
and no powercouldmove them from the
stable.
Altogether it was 4 worry interesting
day ! spent in the drive Of forty-iivc
miles from lsotorua to Lake Tnmpo,
where spent the night with Mr.. j. Gal
laher, who keeps q very comfortable no.
tel. The road from Rotorua to Lake
Tampa is over volcanic mountains, some
OF them from $500 to 1000 feet high.
We did not meet Il human being on the
road in all this iifty-iivc miles and only
saw q few Maori campcd 4 distance from
the road at q halfway station. As You
approach Lake Tampa down q long
mountain You SEQ n dozen steam Jets
putting up at ut different points. Some
OF these steam holes are go strong that il
you throw 4 stone in it will be hurled
out ten or twenty feet.
THE NEXT VOLCANO.
A mountain some few miles in the
rcar OF Mr.. Gallahcr'shotel it is thought
WILDE the ncStmouptaintocrupt. ] IN.
derstand the seologist OF the colony says
cit will go next" as tho tompcraturchns
increased some four degrees in the last
six mouths. The destruction OF the
grand terraces at Mount Tarawora is re-
GREETED all over the world. One OF the
terraces was q pink color, the others
white.
We LETT Tampo on Thursday morning
at o'clock latter saving goodbye to
our friend Cookson), in u coach and
four, driven by Mr.. Joe Brady. Wchad
one hundred miles to make to reach
Napier, over a country no pen on earth
ever did or cver will describe. Only the
eye can get an idea OF the awful grand
II OF this volcanic-tosscd country. The
road bull. sone few years ago by the
government is q wonderful piece OF en-
cheering.
a TlIETLLIEd:.GIDE.s MI
Starting ut the base OF the mountains
you wind with 4 very narrow road cut
in the side in the most %serpcntinc man
ner imaginable till you reach the top,
some six or seven miles. then down tic
same way on the other side. Sometimes
it is lmostpcrpcn1icular and it takcsa
long time to ascend, but when on top
you start down on q full run, with all
Jour horses going at the top OF their
speed. You look down the side Of the
mountain hundreds, ! may say thous-
ands, OF feet, when one foot out OF the
way would often hurl passengers, horses
and coach to destruction. The first one
or two OF these dcscents almost turned
my head gray, and | felt that would a
thousand times rather walk the hun
dred miles. But Joe Brady assured me
that he had bcenlriHins2 fortycars and
never had an accident, and then my
courage was restored andI iolt resigned
to fate, let it be what it would. There
is not n water breaker on any OF these
roads. They are rs smooth and as soft
as 4 velvet carpet. The horses, feet
make no sound and the coach glidcs
along rs smoothly and noisclessly rs 4
sleigh. There are 10, w%asllouts and one
man can guard thirty miles Of this road.
AT NAPIER.
We made fifty miles to the hotel kept
ior tourists at Taramcns, where we
spent the night. Friday morning we
left for Napier, tiity-two mics distant.
The country was about the same for
nearly forty miles. When within
twelve miles OF Napier YOU come into a
beautiful inhabited pastoral and farm
ing country. You cross i creek forty
eight times in travelling on this road
eleven miles. Between 4 and 5 y. NJ.
We reached the beautiful little city BY
the sen-Nnpicr-whcrc we spent Il
comfortable night at the Criterian
Hotel. At II q. m. We left by train for
this city, two hundred and two miles
distant, and arrived here Saturday
night at 10 p. H., having had one hun
drcd and ninety miles OF coaching and
three hundred and thirty-iive Of rail
road travel between Auckland and this
city. The city CT Wellington, tho capt
tai OF tho colony, is q beautiful little city
OF 10000 inhabitants. Tho sharbor is q
good one. The houses are mostly built
OF wood. The government house. par
Lament building and department build
ings are all spacious and wcllbuilt, with
nicely kept grounds and many shade
trees. The city is clean and we'll paved,
with asphalt sidewalks. The population
is English and Scotch, and there is n
quiet, refined, sober looking people TO
be seen on the streets. The markets
are well supplied with all the essentials
for good living. The meat market could
not be surpassed. The city has churches
OF all denominations and they seem to
be n church-going, God-iearing people.
In short, Wellington is acity that has
made good progress in all tho refine.
mcnts a%ndluxurics OF life, and is Il place
where II could live with comfort.
A Household Trcasurc.-"What an
odd papcr-wcight you have!" Eyes.
us my Wifn's fret hiSruIt.r p,ct.