A Pleasant Holiday Trip.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 265, 26 February 1889, Page 2

A Pleasant Holiday Trip.

“Ax English Tourist” writes^—“lf any of your readers desire a de ightful mouth’s holiday I can recommend them the trip which I have just taken, viz,, to run down to Sydney in one of the trading schooners. I bad been some time in Sydney, and was rather overpowered by the heat and doseness. My friends suggested a tour in New Zealand. Having plenty of time I decided on sailing, as being more restful and healthy, as welt as ah admirable means of seeing the coast scenery. The ‘ Louie * was well suited for my purpose. We left Sydney on February fibh, a strong sou’ westerly breeze taking us down to Newcastle in six hours. A day or two were passed at Newcastle, where I enjoyed ths walks along the beach and the bathes in a natural basin among tho rook’, We cleared the “ Nobbies'' with a fresh breeze from the north-east, which severely tested my sailing powers. However, inql de mer forgotten, I was able to enjoy the society of the pleasant captain and talented mate, The latter used to beguile his nightwatches at the wheel by reciting Longfello- , whole eanlas of Soott, and miraljile diotu Virgii with appropriate gestures. ' The cook in process of time developed a talent for making appetising dishes out of salt meat, and pan* cakes. The weather was perfect, with an occasional calm which never lasted more than a few hours. North Gape was passed early in the morning a fortnight after leaving Newcastle. The grandest scenery was after rounding the East Cape—range beyond range of swelling hills and iron rocks, some mountains six thousand feet or more—Hikurangi, Rau-Kumera, and Aorangi, glorious alike when dim in mist dr glowing in a glorious suncet From here, past Gable End at noon, a tew hours with steady breeze brought us tt> Gisborne—completing a trip which forms a charming prelude, to the inland beauties of New Zealand, to which I ata eagerly looking totwsrd,"