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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2143, 27 July 1907, Page 1

Au American wrote amusingly 4° J[,- T. E. Donne by the last mail. In acknowledging receipt of some “magnificent pictures,” lie mentions that lie wrote up an article from them on the glories of New Zealand, and had it accepted by the editor of the Western Field. “I am forced to admit my disappointment concerning the photograph of the . Southern Falls,” confesses the American. “According to the picture you sent me, it is an emaciated creek, rippling over a- cliff in three steps, the water much the color of the gray granite over which it trickles, Enclosed you will find a very different picture (an American wonder), Here we have a river, roariuo- over a precipice, thundering into a rock basin, tumbling eve • the rim, plunging down, down, until it floats out qf a flepey cloud: again falling like tbe Devil and bis hosts into an abyss of adamant —dischaiged like a salvo of artillery into space once mor e until the mighty cataraet pours its tremendous volume into the chasm it has hewn for itself at the foot of the nineteen hundredfoot precipice over which it has leaped like a Mameluke with a shout of triumph at his enemies.”