The Newtown bee., 1903-02-27

O to celebrate his joy at meeting me by my having glass of whisky with him. l, however, courteously declined his hospitality, and shortly afterwards bade him "good morning."
 In the afternoon of that day walk ed out with two friends to Whaka- rewarewa (Whaka-rewa-rewa), and had a "spout bath.' This is said to be one of the most valuable baths in the district. It is warm waterfall formed by an admixture of hot water from boiling springs and adjacent cold mineral water springs. It has great reputation among the Maoris for curing skin diseases, and very bad cases of lumbago have been known to completely disappear under this douche. q must speak of Whaka, as it is usually called, later on.) The next morning went to Hamarana, Tikitere, and the Blue Lake in company with a number of other visitors. We just got into small boat that took us to a launch, by which we proceeded past the island of Mokoia, which is famous in Maori lore as the scene of the wOn- derful legend of Hinemoa. It was to this island that the beautiful Hinemoa, the dark-eyed Maori damsel, charmed by the midnight music of her island lover, Tutanekei, swan from the mainland to where he was. It is a wonderfully beautiful story, and, shortly, it is as follows: Tutanekei, who was one of five sons, lived with 1 his parents on Mokoia Island. Direct ly opposite, on the mainland, lived a maiden of high rank and great beauty named Hinemoa. They fell in love with each other, but Tutanekei was afraid to ask her parents to allow her to become his wife. Eventually, how ever, Hinemoa agreed to go to him at a certain signal, which was to be the sound of a flute or trumpet. One night Hinemoa heard her lover give the signal but in order to get where he was it was necessary for her to cross the lake. Her friends, however, sus- pecting what was up, had removed all the canoes, so that the only means of getting across to her lover was to swim. At first she was afraid to make the attempt, but naturally she attach ed to herself six large gourds to act as floats, and to keep her from sinking.
 With the aid of these gourds she man. aged to swim across the lake to the island: the only guide to which Git being dark night) was the sound of her lovers trumpet. On landing at the island, Hinemoa got into a hot spring to warm herself, for she was trembling all over, partly from the cold, and partly also from modesty at the thought Of meeting Tutanekei.
 While the maiden was thus warming herself in the hot spring, Tutanekei, who did not know she had swan across to the island to her home, happened to feel thirsty, and sent his servant down to the spring to get him some water. So his servant went to fetch the water for him in calabash. When he (the servant) arrived near the spot where HinemOa was sitting she called out to him in gruff voice. like that of man, "Who is that water for?:" He replied, "It is for Tutan- ekel." "Give it here, then," said Hinemoa; and he gave her the water and she drank it, and having finished drinking, she purposely threw down the calabash and broke it. Then the servant said to her, "What business had you to break the calabash of Tu- tanekei?" But Hinemoa did not say word in answer. The servant then went back, and Tutanekei said to him. "Where is the water I told you to : bring me?" So he answered, "Your calabash is broken" Tutanekei asked who broke it, and the servant replied,
 1.-The man who is in the bath." Tu- ; tanekei said, "Go back again, and fetch me some water" The servant did so, but Hinemoa repeated the per formance as before, and broke the second calabaSh, so that he had again to go back without the water, and tell ], Tutanekei what had occurred. Then Tutanekei threw on some clothes, and caught hold of hls club, and away he went to the bath and called out, "Who's that fellow that broke my calabashes?" And Hinemoa knew the voice, that the sound of it was the rf 1,A 1@1A sI l{