FROM GISBORNE TO LONDON.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 905, 1 June 1903, Page 3

FROM GISBORNE TO LONDON.

Mr i\l. 0. Nasmith, jiui., Iho lion. .Secretary of the Gisborne Keclnibile Tent, has received a long letter from liro ’A. Georgeson. who left for England in the Niwaru a short time back In the course of a most interesting letter, Mr Georgeson says : I arrived here (London) on 'luesday evening in the best of felLe, having had a splendid passage all the way across. We were forty-tight days on the trip, which was rather lengthy, owing to an accident, at Las Palmas! by which we ran ashore stern on and stuck last tor thice. hours, coming oh eventually with both propellers hadty damaged l think Las Palmas is one of Lie prettiest places I ever saw, and in the early morning when the sun is nsinr ,( looks like a paradise. I- rom jj ]( , h'lrhor can lie seen lhe distant, peak of TenenlTe. It is quite t lie opposite to the land « r rev musty sighted-Cape Horn. Hi o‘ull6 0 ‘ ull6 ih, mo-l : innom- lowm uutim sued and dre.ivv locking spot, f believe, on earth We ptf-a.-d cl.we n.v L me rocs, aro aiivo with millions ot mrds, and lure ami there are seats hacking to what sun they can get. We also observed a large netuber of whales a abort distance away from the vessel. All the way. from three days from New Zealand to the Horn, we were enveloped in dense fog, necessitating the blowing of the fog horn every twenty minutes or so. Our cxDerieneo at the Tropics was very warm. ‘The poor chaps on the mam , ermines used to come off watch soaking WD°t with perspiration. Ours was the best job on the .ship, in refrigerator. We had to drink ice water by the gallon- The hist eort of England we sighted was bt. Catherine's point, Isle of Wight, lne si<d,t of the town on the Channel at night ist'verv pretty indeed, the coast line being lit up for miles upon miles. 1 was rather surprised to see tile Thames such a pretty river. Some of the fields on hanks look really pretty. re we kept passing thousands ot . ~f a {{ «i/.c.s, from the small fishing vj, . . -i -antic ocean liner and battleA,m. ! in." London very well what I i, . .j-sceu of is. Have vi?itcd all vhe prm* Sights' such’as the Lank and Royal <•'vchumee. Parliament Houses, bt. .lauls, ,n mirier Buildings, GrcenwJCd Hosn,j t Naval Museum, Hotels Cecil and* Mctropo’.e, Blaekwall Tunnel, Tuponny l’iti <• me, etc, I have had the pleasure tf meeting '.ho s. cretary ot the Hope of --MVArb M nt, Leytonstonc, West Ham.